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Re: ditroff format

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From: Jos Vos
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 12:49
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pmoore@hemel.bull.co.uk (Paul Moore) writes:

>Is there  a spec for the ditroff format (other than reverse-engineering groff)?

Yep. It's included in chapter 5 of AT&T's Documenter's Workbench.
I don't remember whether it is called troff(5) or ditroff(5).

Probably the spec is not included in the groff package for copyright reasons...

P.S.
Look in your DPS/TPS reference manual of your DPX doc: there it is included.

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