Roff notes

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This article/section is a stub — probably a pile of half-sorted notes and is probably a first version, is not well-checked, so may have incorrect bits. (Feel free to ignore, or tell me)

Roff and variations (nroff (newer roff), troff (AT&T roff), groff (GNU roff)) are a text formatting languages.

It is mostly based on period-somethign commands (e.g. .bp for a page break), and includes some backslashed commands.