groff_examples

Some Groff examples for me and anyone else confused as to how to use the typesetting libraries.

I would just use a container via Podman or Docker to run a Linux distro that has GNU Groff available in it with all the other tools.

I had to put this into its own document because the comments were being interpreted literally and causing issues in the end result document. TexLive LaTeX does this better.

References

• GNU Groff Documentation

Usage

I use Fedora, but I install the following packages.

sudo dnf install --assumeyes \
  groff \
  groff-base \
  groff-doc \
  groff-perl \
  perl-IO-Compress \
  ghostscript

Then to build the .ms files, I use the following command.

groff -Tpdf -ms groff_ms_example.ms > groff_ms_example.pdf