An old tool used to format
Unix (and
Tcl/
Tk)
man pages. Alas, it is one of the less well-known formats about despite its widespread use even now. The sister tool
troff produces rather pretty output, similar in quality to
LaTeX.
[groff
] is the most common modern implementation, and can produce fine nroff-level output even to terminals, so long as they are
UNICODE-enabled and are using a suitable font.
The basic format is documented in CSTR#54, which is downloadable (as
gzipped
PostScript) from
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html