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NAME

       groff_www - groff macros for authoring web pages

SYNOPSIS

       groff -mwww [ options ] file ...

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  describes  the  GNU  -mwww  macro  package, which is part of the groff
       document formatting system.  The manual page is very a basic guide, and  the  html  device
       driver (grohtml) has been completely rewritten but still remains as in an alpha state.  It
       has been included into the distribution so that a lot of people have a chance to test  it.
       Note that this macro file is automatically called (via the troffrc file) if you use -Thtml
       or -Txhtml.

       To see the hyperlinks in action, please format this man page with the grohtml device.

       Here is a summary of the functions found in this macro set.

       .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
       .FTP         create an ftp reference
       .MTO         create a html email address
       .FTP         create an ftp reference
       .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         only generate HTML title
       .HEAD        add data to <head> block
       .ULS         unorder list begin
       .ULE         unorder 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        pass an html raw request to the device driver
       .CDS         code example begin
       .CDE         code example end
       .ALN         place links on left of main text.
       .LNS         start a new two-column table with links in the left.
       .LNE         end the two-column table.
       .LINKSTYLE   initialize default url attributes.

       Output of the pic, eqn, refer, and tbl preprocessors is acceptable as input.

REQUESTS

       .JOBNAME filename
              Split output into multiple HTML files.  A file is split whenever a .SH or .NH 1  is
              encountered.   Its  argument  is  the file stem name for future output files.  This
              option is equivalent to grohtml's -j option.

       .HX n  Specify the cut off  depth  when  generating  links  from  section  headings.   For
              example, a parameter of 2 would cause grohtml to generate a list of links for .NH 1
              and .NH 2 but not for .NH 3.  Whereas

                     .HX 0

              tells grohtml that no heading links should be created at all.  Another  method  for
              turning  automatic  headings  off is by issuing the the command line switch -P-l to
              groff.

       .BCL foreground background active not-visited visited
              This macro takes five parameters: foreground, background,  active  hypertext  link,
              hypertext link not yet visited, and visited hypertext link colour.

       .BGIMG imagefile
              the only parameter to this macro is the background image file.

       .URL url [description] [after]
              generates  a  URL using either one, two or three arguments.  The first parameter is
              the actual URL, the second is the name of the link, and the third is optional stuff
              to be printed immediately afterwards.  If description and after are absent then the
              url becomes the anchor text.  Hyphenation is disabled  while  printing  the  actual
              URL;  explicit  breakpoints  should be inserted with the \: escape.  Here is how to
              encode foo ⟨http://foo.org/⟩:

                     .URL http://\:foo.\:org/ foo :

              If this is processed by a device other than -Thtml or -Txhtml it appears as:

                     foo ⟨http://foo.org⟩:

              The URL macro can be of any type; for example we can reference Eric Raymond's pic
              guide ⟨pic.html⟩ by:

                     .URL pic.html "Eric Raymond's pic guide"

       .MTO address [description] [after]
              Generate  an  email  html  reference.  The first argument is mandatory as the email
              address.  The optional second argument is the text you see in your  browser  If  an
              empty  argument  is  given, address is used instead.  An optional third argument is
              stuff printed immediately afterwards.  Hyphenation is disabled while  printing  the
              actual  email  address.   For  example, Joe User ⟨joe@user.org⟩ was achieved by the
              following macro:

                     .MTO joe@user.org "Joe User"

              Note that all the URLs actually 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).

       .FTP url [description] [after]
              indicates that data can be obtained via ftp.  The first argument is the url and the
              second is the browser text.  A third argument, similar  to  the  macros  above,  is
              intended  for  stuff  printed  immediately  afterwards.   The  second and the third
              parameter are optional.  Hyphenation is disabled while printing the actual URL.  As
              an  example,  here  the  location  of the GNU ftp server ⟨ftp://ftp.gnu.org/⟩.  The
              macro example above was specified by:

                     .FTP ftp://\:ftp.gnu.org/ "GNU ftp server" .

       .TAG name
              Generates an html name tag from its argument.  This can then  be  referenced  using
              the  URL  ⟨2⟩ macro.  As you can see, you must precede the tag name with # since it
              is a local reference.  This link  was  achieved  via  placing  a  TAG  in  the  URL
              description above; the source looks like this:

                     .TP
                     .B URL
                     generates
                     .TAG URL
                     a URL using either two or three arguments.
                     ...

       .IMG [-R|-L|-C] filename [width] [height]
              Include  a  picture  into  the  document.   The  first  argument  is the horizontal
              location: right, left, or center (-R, -L, or -C).  Alignment is centered by default
              (-C).   The  second  argument  is  the  filename.   The  optional  third and fourth
              arguments are the width and height.  If the width is absent it defaults to 1  inch.
              If  the height is absent it defaults to the width.  This maps onto an html img tag.
              If you are including a png image then it is advisable to use the PIMG macro.

       .PIMG [-R|-L|-C] filename [width [height]]
              Include an image in PNG format.  This macro takes exactly the  same  parameters  as
              the  IMG  macro;  it  has the advantage of working with postscript and html devices
              also since it can automatically convert the image into the EPS  format,  using  the
              following  programs  of the netpbm package: pngtopnm, pnmcrop, and pnmtops.  If the
              document isn't processed with -Thtml or -Txhtml it  is  necessary  to  use  the  -U
              option of groff.

       .MPIMG [-R|-L] [-G gap] filename [width [height]]
              Place  a PNG image on the margin and wrap text around it.  The first parameters are
              optional.  The alignment: left or right (-L or -R) specifies the margin  where  the
              picture  is placed at.  The default alignment is left (-L).  Optionally, -G gap can
              be used to arrange a gap between the picture and the text  that  wraps  around  it.
              The default gap width is zero.
              The  first non-optional argument is the filename.  The optional following arguments
              are the width and height.  If the width is absent it defaults to 1  inch.   If  the
              height is absent it defaults to the width.  Example:

                     .MPIMG -L -G 2c foo.png 3c 1.5c

              The  height  and  width  may  also  be  given as percentages. The PostScript device
              calculates the width from the .l register and the height from the .p register.  For
              example:

                     .MPIMG -L -G 2c foo.png 15%

       .HnS n Begin  heading.   The  numeric heading level n is specified by the first parameter.
              Use this macro if your headings contain URL, FTP or MTO macros.  Example:

                     .HnS 1
                     .HR
                     GNU Troff
                     .URL http://groff.ffii.org (Groff)
                      a
                     .URL http://www.gnu.org/ GNU
                     project.
                     Hosted by
                     .URL http://ffii.org/ FFII .
                     .HR
                     .HnE

              In this case you might wish to disable automatic links to headings.   This  can  be
              done via -P-l from the command line.

       .HnE   End heading.

       .LK    Force grohtml to place the automatically generated links at this position.  If this
              manual page has been processed with -Thtml or -Txhtml those links can be seen right
              here.

       .HR    Generate  a  full-width  horizontal rule for -Thtml and -Txhtml.  No effect for all
              other devices.

       .NHR   Suppress generation of the top and bottom rules which grohtml emits by default.

       .HTL   Generate an HTML title only.  This differs from  the  TL  macro  of  the  ms  macro
              package  which generates both an HTML title and an <H1> heading.  Use it to provide
              an HTML title as search engine fodder but a graphic title  in  the  document.   The
              macro terminates when a space or break is seen (.sp, .br).

       .HEAD  Add  arbitrary HTML data to the <head> block.  Ignored if not processed with -Thtml
              or -Txhtml.  Example:

                     .HEAD "<link \
                       rel=""icon"" \
                       type=""image/png"" \
                       href=""http://foo.org//bar.png""/>"

       .HTML  All text after this macro is treated as raw html.  If  the  document  is  processed
              without  -Thtml  or  -Txhtml  then the macro is ignored.  Internally, this macro is
              used as a building block for other higher-level macros.

              For example, the BGIMG macro is defined as

                     .de BGIMG
                     .   HTML <body background=\\$1>
                     ..

       .DC l text [color]
              Produce a drop capital.  The first parameter  is  the  letter  to  be  dropped  and
              enlarged,  the  second  parameter  text is the ajoining text whose height the first
              letter should not exceed.  The optional third parameter is the color of the dropped
              letter.  It defaults to black.

       .CDS   Start displaying a code section in constant width font.

       .CDE   End code display

       .ALN [color] [percentage]
              Place  section heading links automatically to the left of the main text.  The color
              argument is optional and if present indicates which HTML background color is to  be
              used  under  the  links.   The optional percentage indicates the amount of width to
              devote to displaying the links.  The default values are #eeeeee and  30  for  color
              and  percentage  width, respectively.  This macro should only be called once at the
              beginning of the document.  After calling this macro each section heading emits  an
              HTML table consisting of the links in the left and the section text on the right.

       .LNS   Start  a new two-column table with links in the left column.  This can be called if
              the document has text before the first .SH and if .ALN is used.  Typically this  is
              called  just  before  the  first paragraph and after the main title as it indicates
              that text after this point should be positioned  to  the  right  of  the  left-hand
              navigational links.

       .LNE   End  a  two-column table.  This should be called at the end of the document if .ALN
              was used.

       .LINKSTYLE color [ fontstyle [ openglyph closeglyph ] ]
              Initialize default url attributes to be used if this macro set is not used with the
              HTML device.  The macro set initializes itself with the following call

                     .LINKSTYLE blue C \[la] \[ra]

              but these values will be superseded by a user call to LINKSTYLE.

SECTION HEADING LINKS

       By  default grohtml generates links to all section headings and places these at the top of
       the html document. (See LINKS ⟨2⟩ for details of how to  switch  this  off  or  alter  the
       position).

LIMITATIONS OF GROHTML

       tbl information is currently rendered as a PNG image.

FILES

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/tmac/www.tmac

SEE ALSO

       groff(1), troff(1) grohtml(1), netpbm(1)

AUTHOR

       grohtml was written by Gaius Mulley ⟨gaius@glam.ac.uk

BUGS

       Report  bugs to the Groff Bug Mailing List ⟨bug-groff@gnu.org⟩.  Include a complete, self-
       contained example that will allow the bug to be reproduced, and say which version of groff
       you are using.