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Groff vs Textile

A side-by-side look at Groff and Textile. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Groff

Groff

Office & Productivity

Groff is an open source text processor and document formatting system similar to troff. It is used to format Unix manual pages and possesses powerful text formatting capabilities for producing publication quality output.

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Textile

Textile

Development

Textile is a lightweight markup language that converts plain text formatting to HTML. It has a simple syntax that allows creating formatted documents without HTML knowledge.

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