ROFF - Text markup language

#1012on PLDB

55Years Old

37kRepos

Tags: text markup language
There are at least 36,672 ROFF repos on GitHub
Early development of ROFF happened in Bell Labs
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
See also: (1 related languages) Troff
1 PLDB concepts link to ROFF: nroff

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.