ROFF - Text markup language

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ROFF Wikipedia page
There are at least 36,672 ROFF repos on GitHub
ROFF first developed in AT&T Bell Laboratories
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 11k users using ROFF in 12k repos on GitHub
ROFF on HOPL
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for ROFF

Example from Riju:

.PP
Hello, world!

Example from Linguist:

.TH FOO 1
.SH NAME
foo \- bar
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B foo
.I bar
.SH DESCRIPTION
Foo bar
.BR baz
quux.
.PP
.B Foo
bar baz.