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Groff may refer to:
- Groff (surname)
- Groff family, one of the early 17th century founding families of North America
- groff (software), a typesetting computer program
- Groff (lychee), a variety of lychee fruit tree
Groff (pronounced "gee-roff") is the GNU replacement for the troff and nroff text formatters. It is an original implementation written primarily in C++ by James Clark and is modeled after ditroff, including many extensions. The first version, 0.3.1, was released June 1990. The first stable version, 1.04, was announced in November 1991. Groff was developed as free software to provide an easily obtained replacement for the standard AT&T troff/nroff package, which at the time was proprietary, and was not always available even on branded UNIX systems. In 1999, Werner Lemberg and Ted Harding took over maintenance of Groff.
Groff contains a large number of helper programs, preprocessors, and postprocessors including eqn, tbl, pic and soelim. There are also several macro packages included that duplicate, expand on the capabilities of, or outright replace the standard troff macro packages.
Groff development of new features is active, and is an important part of free, open source, and UNIX derived operating systems such as Linux and 4.4 BSD derivatives — notably because troff macros are used to create man pages, the standard form of documentation on Unix and Unix-like systems.
OpenBSD replaced groff with mandoc in their 4.9 release.
Groff is an anglicized form of the surname Graf or Graff and of predominantly Swiss and sometimes German origin. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andrew Groff, American businessman and politician
- Charles Wister Groff (1898–1987), American real estate developer and philanthropist
- Jonathan Groff (born 1985), American actor
- Lauren Groff (born 1978), American writer
- Mike Groff (born 1961), American racing driver
- Peter Groff (born 1963), American politician from Colorado
- Richard F. "Regis" Groff (1935-2014), American politician from Colorado
- Robbie Groff (born 1966), American racing driver
- Ulysses Grant Groff (1865–1950), American landowner and philanthropist
- Sarah True (née Groff, born 1981), American triathlete
Usage examples of "groff".
Beyond the sea of wriggling dancers in all their gorgeous colors, Groff had returned the Manworm to his sand pit.
The rope had a life of its own, with Groff climbing below him and Riess above, but it was strong and new and easy to hold onto.
Briefly Annelyn had lost himself, allowed himself to trust and obey the older man, simply because Groff was a knight, because Groff knew the groun-runs.
In 1946, there appeared the first hardcover anthology of magazine science fiction, The Best of Science Fiction, edited by Groff Conklin.
Still, I discovered eventually that Groff opinions of quality could usually be relied on, so perhaps I underestimate Alley.
At the back door of his shop appeared Abner Groff with a stick or an empty milk bottle in his hand.
Now, as he stood in the half-darkness by the window watching the baker, he wished that he himself might become thoroughly stirred by something, even by the fits of sullen anger for which Baker Groff was noted.
The editor of one of these, Groff Conklin, was approached by moneyed people who offered to back him and Ted Sturgeon in a new magazine of which they were to be co-editors.