‘The great strength of troff is the flexibility of the basic language and its programmability — it can be made to do almost any formatting task.’
— The UNIX Programming Environment, Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike.

troff, and its GNU implementation groff, are programs that process a textual description of a document to produce typeset versions suitable for printing. It's more ‘What you describe is what you get’ rather than WYSIWYG.

• The history of troff
• troff and its companion programs
• Macro packages
• Papers on troff and its companions
• Books covering troff and its companions
• Publications that use troff
• Source code
• troff community
• Who's who in the world of troff
• Links to other troff-related sites
• Frequently asked questions
• Acknowledgements and miscellaneous

This web site is very much a work in progress so please excuse the rough edges. If you've any suggestions for improving the content I'd be delighted to hear from you.

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Copyright Ralph Corderoy, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006.