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groff_www(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual groff_www(7)
Name
groff_www - GNU roff macros for authoring web pages
Synopsis
groff -m www [option ...] [file ...]
Description
This manual page describes the GNU www macro package, which is
part of the groff(7) document formatting system. This macro file
is automatically loaded by the default troffrc file when the
formatter (usually groff(1)) is called with either of the options
“-T html” or “-T xhtml”. The HTML output driver grohtml(1) is in
a beta state; groff distributes these macros to encourage its
testing.
Macro Meaning
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JOBNAME split output into multiple files
HX automatic heading level cut-off
BCL specify colours on a web page
BGIMG specify background image
URL create a URL using two parameters
MTO create an HTML email address
TAG generate an HTML name
IMG include an image file
PIMG include PNG image
MPIMG place PNG on the margin and wrap text around it
HnS begin heading
HnE end heading
LK emit automatically collected links
HR produce a horizontal rule
NHR suppress automatic generation of rules
HTL record document title as HTML metadata only
HEAD add data to <head> block
ULS unordered list begin
ULE unordered list end
OLS ordered list begin
OLE ordered list end
DLS definition list begin
DLE definition list end
LI insert a list item
DC generate a drop capital
HTML transmit raw HTML to output driver
CDS code example begin
CDE code example end
ALN place links on left of main text
LNS start two-column table with links on the left
LNE end two-column table started with .LNS
LINKSTYLE initialize default URL attributes
Macros
JOBNAME file-name-stem
Split output into multiple HTML files. In ms documents, a
file is split whenever an .SH or “.NH 1” call is
encountered. Its argument is the file name stem used for
output files. This option is equivalent to grohtml's -j
option.
HX n Set section heading level above which grohtml is not to
automatically generate links to n. For example, when used
with the groff_ms(7) package, “.HX 2” causes grohtml to
generate a list of links for ms macro calls “.NH 1” and
“.NH 2” but not for “.NH 3”, whereas “.HX 0” generates no
hyperlinks to section headings. Giving groff the option
“-P -l” disables automatic heading linkage.
BCL foreground background active not-visited visited
Configure colours used for page foreground, page
background, active hypertext link, hypertext links not yet
visited, and visited hypertext links.
BGIMG file
Set the background image to file.
URL url [link-text [post]]
Generate a hyperlink to url with optional link-text
followed immediately by non-linked text post.
If link-text is absent, url is formatted as the link text.
Hyphenation is disabled while formatting a URL; insert
explicit break points with the \: escape sequence.
MTO address [link-text [post]]
Generate an email hyperlink to address with optional link-
text followed immediately by non-linked text post.
If link-text is absent, address is formatted as the link
text. Hyphenation is disabled while formatting a URL;
insert explicit break points with the \: escape sequence.
TAG name
Generate an anchor name marking its location in the
document as a target for hyperlinks.
IMG file-name [-C|-L|-R] [width [height]]
Insert graphical image file-name. The optional second
argument aligns the image to the center (-C; default),
left (-L), or right (-R). The optional width defaults to
100 units (in the context of the HTML renderer) and the
optional height to the same measurement as width .
PIMG [-C|-L|-R] file-name [width [height]]
Insert graphical image file-name, assumed to be in PNG
format. Compared to IMG, this macro has the advantage of
working with both PostScript and HTML devices since it
converts file-name into EPS format using pngtopnm(1),
pnmcrop(1), and pnmtops(1). height and width may be given
as percentages (of the line length \n[.l] and page length
\n[.p], respectively).
If the document isn't processed with “-T html” or
“-T xhtml”, you must use groff(1)'s -U option.
MPIMG [-L|-R] [-G gap] file-name [width [height]]
As PIMG, but place the image at a margin and wrap text
around it. The image is aligned the to the left (-L,
default) or right (-R) margin. -G gap imposes horizontal
space of gap pixels between the picture and the text that
wraps around it. The default gap is zero.
HnS n Begin heading at level n.
HnE End heading text.
LK Direct grohtml to emit the list of automatically generated
hyperlinks at this location.
HR Generate a full-width horizontal rule when used with
“-T html” or “-T xhtml”.
NHR Suppress the horizontal rules at the document's top and
bottom that grohtml emits by default.
HTL Generate an HTML title only. This differs from
groff_ms(7)'s TL macro, which generates both an HTML title
and an <H1> heading. Use it to provide an HTML title as
document metadata but not as formatted text. The title
ends when vertical space (.sp) or a break (.br) is seen.
HEAD Add arbitrary data to the HTML <head> element. Ignored if
not processed with “-T html” or “-T xhtml”.
HTML All text after this macro is treated as raw HTML. Ignored
if not processed with “-T html” or “-T xhtml”.
DC L text [color]
Format a “drop cap”—a large character L (usually a capital
letter) at a larger size and with a lower text baseline
than the following text, such that the cap-heights of L
and text align, in the specified color (default: black).
CDS Begin code display; a monospaced font is selected and
filling is disabled.
CDE End code display.
ALN [color [width-percentage]]
Enable a “navigation pane” containing links to section
headings, aligned to the left of running text, and
configure its rendering parameters. Columnation is
achieved with an HTML table. color indicates an HTML
background color to be used in the navigation column; the
default is #eeeeee. width-percentage allocates the given
percentage of the the navigation pane's table column; the
default is 30. Call this macro at most once, at the
beginning of the document.
LNS Begin text indexed by the navigation pane configured by
ALN.
LNE End text indexed by navigation pane started by LNS.
LINKSTYLE color [font-style [open-glyph close-glyph]]
Configure rendering of formatted hyperlink targets for
devices other than html and xhtml; render targets in color
(default: blue) using the typeface font-style (default:
CR) bracketed with open-glyph and close-glyph (defaults:
\[la] and \[ra], respectively).
Section heading links
By default grohtml generates links to all section headings and
places these at the top of the HTML document. Configure this
behavior with HX and/or LK.
Limitations of grohtml
tbl(1) tables are rendered as PNG images. Paul DuBois's approach
with tblcvt(1), part of the troffcvt distribution
⟨http://www.snake.net/software/troffcvt/⟩, should be explored.
All URLs currently are treated as consuming no textual space in
groff. This could be considered as a bug since it causes some
problems. To circumvent this, www.tmac inserts a zero-width
character which expands to a harmless space (only if run with
-Thtml or -Txhtml).
Some of the macros, like ALN, LNS, and LNE, are integrated only
with the groff_ms(7) package.
Files
/usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/tmac/www.tmac
Authors
The www macro package was written by Gaius Mulley ⟨gaius@glam.ac
.uk⟩, with additions by Werner Lemberg ⟨wl@gnu.org⟩ and Bernd
Warken ⟨groff-bernd.warken-72@web.de⟩.
See also
groff(1), troff(1), grohtml(1), netpbm(1)
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