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