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Unroff is a Scheme-based, programmable, extensible troff translator
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with a back-end for the Hypertext Markup Language.
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Unroff reads and parses UNIX troff documents and translates the embedded
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markup into a different format. Neither the actual output format nor
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any knowledge about particular troff macro sets (-man, -ms, etc.) are
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hard-wired into unroff. Instead, the translation process is controlled
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by a set of user-supplied procedures written in the Scheme programming
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language.
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Translation rules for new output formats and troff macro packages can
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be added easily by providing a corresponding set of Scheme procedures
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(a `back-end'). Version 1.0 of unroff includes back-ends for translating
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documents using the `man' and `ms' macros into the Hypertext Markup
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Language (HTML) version 2.0. Additional requests facilitate use of
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arbitrary hypertext links in troff documents.
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