Roff (software)

roff
Original author(s)Joe Ossanna, Ken Thompson
Developer(s)AT&T Bell Laboratories
Initial releaseNovember 3, 1971; 53 years ago (1971-11-03)
Operating systemUnix and Unix-like
TypeCommand

roff is a typesetting markup language. As the first Unix text-formatting computer program, it is a predecessor of the nroff and troff document processing systems.[1]: 290 

Roff was a Unix version of the runoff text-formatting program from Multics, which was a descendant of RUNOFF for CTSS (the first computerized text-formatting application). [1]

  1. ^ a b Shotts, William E. (2019). The Linux command line: a complete introduction (2 ed.). San Francisco: No Starch Press. ISBN 978-1-59327-953-0.