#nroff
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #nroff from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-28 04:37 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-07-28 04:37 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #nroff.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-28 04:37 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 5 public posts (spanning ~28765 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (5)
Avg boosts / post: 0.4
Top of the latest posts
We first made the #curl build use #nroff for building the hugehelp file in December 1998, for curl 5.2. This makes "curl -M" work. Now, I'm working on a change that finally removes nroff from the curl build process: https://github.com/curl/
Is there a cross-platform way to add a horizontal rule/page-separator to a man page. Must be supported by groff, nroff, troff, and BSD's roff. #roff #groff #nroff #troff #manpage #manpages
Is there a standardized format for the EXAMPLES section in man pages? Like should I put the description of the command fist, then the indented command? Or should I put the bolded command first and then an indented description? Which do peop
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