Homebrew formulae fortroff(1)andman(1)

Whether you love man pages or the Troff typesetting system itself, you've come to the right place.

This is a “tap” forHomebrew,the unofficial package manager for macOS. We'll gauchely assume you know what we're talking about. If not, seebrew(1)or theironline documentationfor more info on getting started.

Installing

To grab hold of these formulae, run:

brew tap alhadis/troff

Then install any of them at your leisure:

brew install alhadis/troff/man-db
brew install heirloom-doctools

Note:Some of these formulae are already available from Homebrew's core, butrequire configurationbefore use. This tap replaces them with DWIM equivalents, ones which require noPATH-fiddling after installation. A complication of this is thatalhadis/troff/must prefix the formula's name when installed. Others can be installed normally (e.g.,heirloom-doctoolsas illustrated above).

Available formulae

• awf: The Amazingly Workable Formatter, a partialnroff(1)clone written in Awk.
• chem: Historic version ofchem(1),a preprocessor for chemical diagrams.
• deroff: Enhanced version of the traditionalderoff(1)utility used to remove Roff markup.
• dformat: Awk-based preprocessor for data formats, taken fromCSTR #142.
• dpic: Reimplementation ofgpic(1)targeting LaTeX and web-based formats.
• heirloom-doctools: Modernisedtroffgeared toward high-quality typesetting.
• man-db: The implementation ofman(1)widely used on Linux.
• neatroff: Modern reimplementation of Troff with Unicode and bidirectional text support.
• pikchr: Web-friendly PIC interpreter optimised for SVG output.
• sqlrpt: Preprocessor fortbl(1)that generates tables fromSQLitequeries.
• teqn: Convert TeX equations toNeateqnpreprocessor markup.