nroff command in unix

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, May 11, 2007, Dennis Malen wrote:
>
>   Ken Brody wrote an article in the recently distributed filePro
>   Developers Journal. It may have been written yers ago. He writes about
>   the use of mail and printing forms with nroff, which is a command
>   found on UNIX systems.
>
>   Unbelievable what it can do through filePro. We are changing many of
>   the forms that we use to be able to take advantage of this approach.

I've been using groff to print typeset invoices for years.

One of my customers has been printing 3 column typeset auction catalogs
from a database since 1990 or so where the output is taken directly from a
database via an SQL select which is parsed by a perl script to generate the
groff input.  Actually the first versions of this used xroff on Xenix
systems which Tom Podnar's Microlite was selling.

The SQL-Ledger program uses LaTeX templates for many of its reports.

We regularly print mailing labels using groff to format the output for
standard Avery labels (with a tweak that it prints return address lables on
the unused labels on the final sheet so we're not wasting them).

Bill
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