Greg's groff tools

Greg's groff tools

This directory contains a number of various tools that I use for writing books and articles, and also for general text formatting. They were written for my own use, so initially they contained exactly almost enough documentation for me to find my way around. That should change, but as of now it hasn't happened yet.

Here's a brief overview of what's in here:

Makefile
Makefile for the programs in this directory.
Makefile.book
The “back end” of Makefile.project. Contains most of the rules and variables.
Makefile.project
Makefile to be adapted for individual projects. Contains many comments, most of them correct.
Makefile.subdir
A simplified version of Makefile.book, requiring no setup. To be included by an otherwise almost empty Makefile in the user's directory.
elimdup
Given a sorted list of files, compare each with the next and create a list of files with different contents. Used for weeding out duplicate man pages
getchapternumbers
Extract the Chapter number headings and titles from chapters and appendices, and create variables for the chapter number and title
massageps.el
Emacs macros to process PostScript files.
mkctoc
Make a short table of contents file from the source file for inclusion by the main file.
mkids
Create groff files with definitions for the RCS Ids of the source files, and also some glue for adding to the front matter of a book.
mkindex.c
Build an index source file from the information contained in the error output of the individual chapters.
roman.c
Convert between Roman and Indian numerals.
setfont.c
Filter to change some troff requests into the corresponding HTML requests. Probably incomplete.
stripcond.c
Primitive preprocessor: read in a file and look for lines beginning with ..if <tag> and ..endif. Remove everything between ..if and ..endif if it's not our tag.
striphead.c
Variant of head(1). I no longer remember what the difference is. Probably obsolete.
tmac.G
Main G macro file. To be documented, but there's plenty in the comments. This was derived from the groff .mm files years ago.
xlate4pdf.c
A filter to resize a PostScript file to make into display slides. This program was written to overcome some Emacs buffer size issues with massageps.el. It will probably go away and be replaced by a file massageps.c

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