This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the GNU groff
document formatting system. 
GNU groff was written by James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>.  
It is now maintained by Ted Harding <ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> and
Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>.

This Debian package was previously maintained by Fabrizio Polacco
<fpolacco@debian.org>.
It is now maintained by Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>.

The original tarball came from <URL:ftp://groff.ffii.org/pub/groff/>:
  9564e58e553e7a8d4c6e73a782f296ce  groff-1.17.2.tar.gz
and was simply renamed to groff_1.17.2.orig.tar.gz.

Some patches have been applied to groff outside the debian directory. The
most visible of these is a patch for Japanese support (contributed by
Fumitoshi UKAI and others in the jgroff team), which adds the ascii8 and
nippon devices and a number of font files. This has been discussed on the
upstream mailing list, and the opinion there was that multi-byte language
support would be better implemented using preprocessors and a UTF-8 core.
However, at the time of writing, there are no known problems caused by this
patch, and until a more complete solution is implemented upstream this
provides a useful service to Japanese users of Debian.

The Debian diff also includes improved support for central paper size
configuration in the form of /etc/papersize (written by Fabrizio Polacco and
Colin Watson), and appends /usr/share/groff/tmac to the default macro path
for compatibility with versions of groff earlier than 1.17 (by Colin
Watson).

=========================================================================

Copyright (C) 1989-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     Written by James Clark (jjc@jclark.com)

This file is part of groff.

groff is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
version.

groff is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with groff; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

On Debian systems, a copy of the GNU General Public License is available
in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL as part of the base-files package.

=========================================================================

Included in this release are implementations of troff, pic, eqn, tbl,
grn, refer, -man, -mdoc, and -ms macros, and drivers for PostScript, TeX
dvi format, HP LaserJet 4 printers, Canon CAPSL printers, HTML format
(still alpha), and typewriter-like devices.  Also included is a modified
version of the Berkeley -me macros, an enhanced version of the X11
xditview previewer, and an implementation of the -mm macros contributed
by Joergen Haegg (jh@axis.se).

xditview is copyrighted by MIT under the usual X terms.

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