This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the GNU groff document formatting system. GNU groff was written by James Clark . It is now maintained by Ted Harding and Werner Lemberg . This Debian package was previously maintained by Fabrizio Polacco . It is now maintained by Colin Watson . The original tarball came from : 9564e58e553e7a8d4c6e73a782f296ce groff-1.17.2.tar.gz and was simply renamed to groff_1.17.2.orig.tar.gz. Some patches have been applied to groff outside the debian directory. The most visible of these is a patch for Japanese support (contributed by Fumitoshi UKAI and others in the jgroff team), which adds the ascii8 and nippon devices and a number of font files. This has been discussed on the upstream mailing list, and the opinion there was that multi-byte language support would be better implemented using preprocessors and a UTF-8 core. However, at the time of writing, there are no known problems caused by this patch, and until a more complete solution is implemented upstream this provides a useful service to Japanese users of Debian. The Debian diff also includes improved support for central paper size configuration in the form of /etc/papersize (written by Fabrizio Polacco and Colin Watson), and appends /usr/share/groff/tmac to the default macro path for compatibility with versions of groff earlier than 1.17 (by Colin Watson). ========================================================================= Copyright (C) 1989-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by James Clark (jjc@jclark.com) This file is part of groff. groff is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. groff is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with groff; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. On Debian systems, a copy of the GNU General Public License is available in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL as part of the base-files package. ========================================================================= Included in this release are implementations of troff, pic, eqn, tbl, grn, refer, -man, -mdoc, and -ms macros, and drivers for PostScript, TeX dvi format, HP LaserJet 4 printers, Canon CAPSL printers, HTML format (still alpha), and typewriter-like devices. Also included is a modified version of the Berkeley -me macros, an enhanced version of the X11 xditview previewer, and an implementation of the -mm macros contributed by Joergen Haegg (jh@axis.se). xditview is copyrighted by MIT under the usual X terms. /* * Copyright 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology * * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its * documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that * the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting * documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in advertising or * publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, * written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no representations about the * suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" * without express or implied warranty. * * M.I.T. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL M.I.T. * BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES * WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION * OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN * CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. * */