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8 groff_www - groff macros for authoring web pages
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12 groff -mwww [ options ] file ...
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15 This manual page describes the GNU -mwww macro package, which is part
16 of the groff document formatting system. The manual page is very a
17 basic guide, and the html device driver (grohtml) has been completely
18 rewritten but still remains as in an alpha state. It has been included
19 into the distribution so that a lot of people have a chance to test it.
20 Note that this macro file is automatically called (via the troffrc
21 file) if you use -Thtml or -Txhtml.
22 To see the hyperlinks in action, please format this man page with the
24 grohtml device.
25 Here is a summary of the functions found in this macro set.
27 .JOBNAME split output into multiple files
29 .HX automatic heading level cut off
30 .BCL specify colours on a web page
31 .BGIMG specify background image
32 .URL create a url using two parameters
33 .FTP create an ftp reference
34 .MTO create a html email address
35 .FTP create an ftp reference
36 .TAG generate an html name
37 .IMG include an image file
38 .PIMG include png image
39 .MPIMG place png on the margin and wrap text around it
40 .HnS begin heading
41 .HnE end heading
42 .LK emit automatically collected links.
43 .HR produce a horizontal rule
44 .NHR suppress automatic generation of rules.
45 .HTL only generate HTML title
46 .HEAD add data to <head> block
47 .ULS unorder list begin
48 .ULE unorder list end
49 .OLS ordered list begin
50 .OLE ordered list end
51 .DLS definition list begin
52 .DLE definition list end
53 .LI insert a list item
54 .DC generate a drop capital
55 .HTML pass an html raw request to the device driver
56 .CDS code example begin
57 .CDE code example end
58 .ALN place links on left of main text.
59 .LNS start a new two-column table with links in the left.
60 .LNE end the two-column table.
61 .LINKSTYLE initialize default url attributes.
62 Output of the pic, eqn, refer, and tbl preprocessors is acceptable as
64 input.
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67 .JOBNAME filename
68 Split output into multiple HTML files. A file is split whenever
69 a .SH or .NH 1 is encountered. Its argument is the file stem
70 name for future output files. This option is equivalent to
71 grohtml's -j option.
72 .HX n Specify the cut off depth when generating links from section
74 headings. For example, a parameter of 2 would cause grohtml to
75 generate a list of links for .NH 1 and .NH 2 but not for .NH 3.
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77 .HX 0
79 tells grohtml that no heading links should be created at all.
81 Another method for turning automatic headings off is by issuing
82 the the command line switch -P-l to groff.
83 .BCL foreground background active not-visited visited
85 This macro takes five parameters: foreground, background, active
86 hypertext link, hypertext link not yet visited, and visited
87 hypertext link colour.
88 .BGIMG imagefile
90 the only parameter to this macro is the background image file.
91 .URL url [description] [after]
93 generates a URL using either one, two or three arguments. The
94 first parameter is the actual URL, the second is the name of the
95 link, and the third is optional stuff to be printed immediately
96 afterwards. If description and after are absent then the url
97 becomes the anchor text. Hyphenation is disabled while printing
98 the actual URL; explicit breakpoints should be inserted with the
99 \: escape. Here is how to encode foo ⟨http://foo.org/⟩:
100 .URL http://\:foo.\:org/ foo :
102 If this is processed by a device other than -Thtml or -Txhtml it
104 appears as:
105 foo ⟨http://foo.org⟩:
107 The URL macro can be of any type; for example we can reference
109 Eric Raymond's pic guide ⟨pic.html⟩ by:
110 .URL pic.html "Eric Raymond's pic guide"
112 .MTO address [description] [after]
114 Generate an email html reference. The first argument is manda‐
115 tory as the email address. The optional second argument is the
116 text you see in your browser If an empty argument is given,
117 address is used instead. An optional third argument is stuff
118 printed immediately afterwards. Hyphenation is disabled while
119 printing the actual email address. For example, Joe User
120 ⟨joe@user.org⟩ was achieved by the following macro:
121 .MTO joe@user.org "Joe User"
123 Note that all the URLs actually are treated as consuming no tex‐
125 tual space in groff. This could be considered as a bug since it
126 causes some problems. To circumvent this, www.tmac inserts a
127 zero-width character which expands to a harmless space (only if
128 run with -Thtml or -Txhtml).
129 .FTP url [description] [after]
131 indicates that data can be obtained via ftp. The first argument
132 is the url and the second is the browser text. A third argu‐
133 ment, similar to the macros above, is intended for stuff printed
134 immediately afterwards. The second and the third parameter are
135 optional. Hyphenation is disabled while printing the actual
136 URL. As an example, here the location of the GNU ftp server
137 ⟨ftp://ftp.gnu.org/⟩. The macro example above was specified by:
138 .FTP ftp://\:ftp.gnu.org/ "GNU ftp server" .
140 .TAG name
142 Generates an html name tag from its argument. This can then be
143 referenced using the URL ⟨0⟩ macro. As you can see, you must
144 precede the tag name with # since it is a local reference. This
145 link was achieved via placing a TAG in the URL description
146 above; the source looks like this:
147 .TP
149 .B URL
150 generates
151 .TAG URL
152 a URL using either two or three arguments.
153 ...
154 .IMG [-R|-L|-C] filename [width] [height]
156 Include a picture into the document. The first argument is the
157 horizontal location: right, left, or center (-R, -L, or -C).
158 Alignment is centered by default (-C). The second argument is
159 the filename. The optional third and fourth arguments are the
160 width and height. If the width is absent it defaults to 1 inch.
161 If the height is absent it defaults to the width. This maps
162 onto an html img tag. If you are including a png image then it
163 is advisable to use the PIMG macro.
164 .PIMG [-R|-L|-C] filename [width [height]]
166 Include an image in PNG format. This macro takes exactly the
167 same parameters as the IMG macro; it has the advantage of work‐
168 ing with postscript and html devices also since it can automati‐
169 cally convert the image into the EPS format, using the following
170 programs of the netpbm package: pngtopnm, pnmcrop, and pnmtops.
171 If the document isn't processed with -Thtml or -Txhtml it is
172 necessary to use the -U option of groff.
173 .MPIMG [-R|-L] [-G gap] filename [width [height]]
175 Place a PNG image on the margin and wrap text around it. The
176 first parameters are optional. The alignment: left or right (-L
177 or -R) specifies the margin where the picture is placed at. The
178 default alignment is left (-L). Optionally, -G gap can be used
179 to arrange a gap between the picture and the text that wraps
180 around it. The default gap width is zero.
181 The first non-optional argument is the filename. The optional
182 following arguments are the width and height. If the width is
183 absent it defaults to 1 inch. If the height is absent it
184 defaults to the width. Example:
185 .MPIMG -L -G 2c foo.png 3c 1.5c
187 The height and width may also be given as percentages. The Post‐
189 Script device calculates the width from the .l register and the
190 height from the .p register. For example:
191 .MPIMG -L -G 2c foo.png 15%
193 .HnS n Begin heading. The numeric heading level n is specified by the
195 first parameter. Use this macro if your headings contain URL,
196 FTP or MTO macros. Example:
197 .HnS 1
199 .HR
200 GNU Troff
201 .URL http://groff.ffii.org (Groff)
202 — a
203 .URL http://www.gnu.org/ GNU
204 project.
205 Hosted by
206 .URL http://ffii.org/ FFII .
207 .HR
208 .HnE
209 In this case you might wish to disable automatic links to head‐
211 ings. This can be done via -P-l from the command line.
212 .HnE End heading.
215 .LK Force grohtml to place the automatically generated links at this
217 position. If this manual page has been processed with -Thtml or
218 -Txhtml those links can be seen right here.
219 .HR Generate a full-width horizontal rule for -Thtml and -Txhtml.
221 No effect for all other devices.
222 .NHR Suppress generation of the top and bottom rules which grohtml
224 emits by default.
225 .HTL Generate an HTML title only. This differs from the TL macro of
227 the ms macro package which generates both an HTML title and an
228 <H1> heading. Use it to provide an HTML title as search engine
229 fodder but a graphic title in the document. The macro termi‐
230 nates when a space or break is seen (.sp, .br).
231 .HEAD Add arbitrary HTML data to the <head> block. Ignored if not
233 processed with -Thtml or -Txhtml. Example:
234 .HEAD "<link \
236 rel=""icon"" \
237 type=""image/png"" \
238 href=""http://foo.org//bar.png""/>"
239 .HTML All text after this macro is treated as raw html. If the docu‐
241 ment is processed without -Thtml or -Txhtml then the macro is
242 ignored. Internally, this macro is used as a building block for
243 other higher-level macros.
244 For example, the BGIMG macro is defined as
246 .de BGIMG
248 . HTML <body background=\$1>
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250 .DC l text [color]
252 Produce a drop capital. The first parameter is the letter to be
253 dropped and enlarged, the second parameter text is the ajoining
254 text whose height the first letter should not exceed. The
255 optional third parameter is the color of the dropped letter. It
256 defaults to black.
257 .CDS Start displaying a code section in constant width font.
259 .CDE End code display
261 .ALN [color] [percentage]
263 Place section heading links automatically to the left of the
264 main text. The color argument is optional and if present indi‐
265 cates which HTML background color is to be used under the links.
266 The optional percentage indicates the amount of width to devote
267 to displaying the links. The default values are #eeeeee and 30
268 for color and percentage width, respectively. This macro should
269 only be called once at the beginning of the document. After
270 calling this macro each section heading emits an HTML table con‐
271 sisting of the links in the left and the section text on the
272 right.
273 .LNS Start a new two-column table with links in the left column.
275 This can be called if the document has text before the first .SH
276 and if .ALN is used. Typically this is called just before the
277 first paragraph and after the main title as it indicates that
278 text after this point should be positioned to the right of the
279 left-hand navigational links.
280 .LNE End a two-column table. This should be called at the end of the
282 document if .ALN was used.
283 .LINKSTYLE color [ fontstyle [ openglyph closeglyph ] ]
285 Initialize default url attributes to be used if this macro set
286 is not used with the HTML device. The macro set initializes
287 itself with the following call
288 .LINKSTYLE blue C \[la] \[ra]
290 but these values will be superseded by a user call to LINKSTYLE.
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294 By default grohtml generates links to all section headings and places
295 these at the top of the html document. (See LINKS ⟨0⟩ for details of
296 how to switch this off or alter the position).
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299 tbl information is currently rendered as a PNG image.
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302 /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/www.tmac
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305 groff(1), troff(1) grohtml(1), netpbm(1)
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308 grohtml was written by Gaius Mulley ⟨gaius@glam.ac.uk⟩
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311 Report bugs to the Groff Bug Mailing List ⟨bug-groff@gnu.org⟩. Include
312 a complete, self-contained example that will allow the bug to be repro‐
313 duced, and say which version of groff you are using.
314Groff Version 1.20.1 9 January 2009 GROFF_WWW(7)
