troff reads text files (written using an instream formatting language, see [nroff]) and formats the text for typesetting or laser printing.

The most common modern implementation is [GNU] [groff].

The connection to Tcl is that the Tcl [man] pages - the only documentation that comes with the source - uses the *roff markup formatting language.

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