groff_font(5) File Formats Manual groff_font(5) (NAME) groff_font - groff (DESCRIPTION) groff troff AT&T . AT&T groff . ( troff Plan 9 .) name devname . DESC f f / . ps (PostScript) groff Times roman (TR) Zapf Chancery Medium italic (ZCMI) utf8 ( ) roman italic bold bold-italic ( R I B BI) . troff . libgroff . DESC (DESC file format) DESC (directives) . : () res papersize () charset ( ). ( res papersize ). / . () "#" . . family fam fam . fonts n F1 ... Fn F1, ..., Fn m+1, ..., m+n (mount) m styles ( ). . 0 . hor n n . n . image_generator program program PNG PostScript. GNU/Linux gs(1) ( Cygwin) . grohtml(1) . paperlength n n (: papersize ). papersize format-or-dimension-pair-or-file-name ... . ISO DIN A0-A7 B0-B7 C0-C7 D0-D7 letter legal tabloid ledger statement executive com10 monarch DL. . length,width ( ). length width "i" "c" "p" "P" (pica). : "12c,235p". . ( /etc/papersize) . . . paperwidth n n (: papersize ). pass_filenames troff . "x F" grohtml . postpro program program (postprocessor). prepro program program (preprocessor). html xhtml . print program program (print spooler). -l -L groff . res n () n . sizes s1 ... sn 0 s1 ... sn (scaled points) ( ). 0 . si m-n . . sizescale n n . 1 . styles S1 ... Sm m S1 ... Sm . tcommand t u . unicode . (character entities) . unicode charset groff . charset ( ). utf8 html xhtml . unitwidth n . unscaled_charwidths . grohtml . use_charnames_in_special troff . grohtml . vert n n . n . charset . troff . troff . troff spare1 spare2 biggestfont . res unitwidth fonts sizes . troff . (Font description file format) . . unit width ( ) . . . . lbp groff unitwidth 800 . Times roman TR spacewidth 833 "M" 2,963 . "M" lbp 2,963 / 800 3.7 . 10 "M" Times roman 37 . . DESC . . . . name F F . "DESC" . . ( groff . "0" fonts DESC .) spacewidth n (unadjusted) n . . slant n (slant) n n . ligatures lig1 ... lign [0] lig1 ... lign ( / ) ff fi fl ffi ffl. troff 0 . . special special () : . unstyled ( ) (bold) (italic oblique) . troff . . . charset DESC unicode . kernpairs . charset . ( .) . . name metrics type index [entity-name] [-- comment] name : c c troff \ troff "\[name]" . "---" : \N troff . "---" .char . name "\-" . name \| \^ ( " (thin)" " (hair)") . metrics ( ). width[,[height[,[depth[,[italic-correction[,[ left-italic-correction[,[subscript-correction]]]]]]]]]] . unitwidth . 0 . troff AT&T char . width . height ( ) . depth -- ( ) . (italic corrections) (upright) (italic oblique) . italic-correction . left-italic-correction . subscript-correction (italic correction) . type : (bit mask) (ascender) (descender) . \w OR ct . . 0 "x-height" "a" "c" "x" 1 "p" 2 x-height "A" "b" 3 -- . index ( strtol(3) C ) . index int C . troff \N . entity-name name troff . grohtml . \[Po] HTML 4.0 "£" . grohtml . grops PostScript . entity-name "--" . afmtodit gropdf(1) grops(1) UTF-16 (comment) . charset name " name . . charset-range charset name uAAAA..uFFFF AAAA FFFF . kernpairs (kerning adjustments) . : g1 g2 n g1 g2 n . unitwidth . n . (FILES) /usr/share/groff/1.24.1/font/devname/DESC name . /usr/share/groff/1.24.1/font/devname/F F name . (SEE ALSO) Groff: The GNU Implementation of troff Trent A. Fisher Werner Lemberg groff . "info groff" . "Troff User's Manual" Joseph F. Ossanna ( Brian W. Kernighan ) AT&T "CSTR #54" groff "AT&T troff" . "A Typesetter-independent TROFF" Brian W. Kernighan AT&T . groff(1) "Utilities" groff . troff(1) . groff_out(5) addftinfo(1) groff 1.24.1 2026-03-15 groff_font(5)