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5 'gtroff' Reference
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This chapter covers *all* of the facilities of 'gtroff'.  Users of macro
packages may skip it if not interested in details.

Text

Measurements

Expressions

Identifiers

Embedded Commands

Registers

Manipulating Filling and Adjusting

Manipulating Hyphenation

Manipulating Spacing

Tabs and Fields

Character Translations

Troff and Nroff Mode

Line Layout

Line Control

Page Layout

Page Control

Fonts and Symbols

Sizes

Strings

Conditionals and Loops

Writing Macros

Page Motions

Drawing Requests

Traps

Diversions

Environments

Suppressing output

Colors

I/O

Postprocessor Access

Miscellaneous

Gtroff Internals

Debugging

Implementation Differences