roff

ROFF (man page format) generation library

1.1.1 15M downloads/mo #2470 most downloaded on crates.io rust-cli/roff-rs

What this package is like to depend on

Last release 4 months ago

28 Mar 2026

Release timing varies

gaps range from 2 weeks to 3.6 years

Nearly every release is documented

notes for 7 of 7 stable releases

Nothing withdrawn

no release was ever pulled

8 years old

7 releases · first in 2018

3 releases in the last 12 months

see the full history below

7 releases · May 2018 to Mar 2026

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

Release Pre-release

latest 7

1.1.1 28 Mar 2026

Release notes

chore: Release roff version 1.1.1
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1.1.0 12 Mar 2026

Release notes

chore: Release roff version 1.1.0
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Compatibility
- Update MSRV to 1.85
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1.0.0 11 Feb 2026

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chore: Release roff version 1.0.0
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0.2.2 25 Jul 2024

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chore: Release roff version 0.2.2
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Compatibility
- Update MSRV to 1.70
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0.2.1 23 Dec 2021
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Features
- Allow building up Roffs from each other
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0.2.0 23 Dec 2021

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Breaking Changes

The API changed to be a generic ROFF writer, taking care of escaping, etc. At the moment, handling of control lines is left up to the caller

Open source →
0.1.0 28 May 2018

Release notes

 [Unreleased]: https://github.com/rust-cli/roff-rs/compare/v1.1.1...HEAD [1.1.1]: https://github.com/rust-cli/roff-rs/compare/v1.1.0...v1.1.1 [1.1.0]: https://github.com/rust-cli/roff-rs/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0 [1.0.0]: https://github.com/rust-cli/roff-rs/compare/v0.2.2...v1.0.0 [0.2.2]: https://github.com/rust-cli/roff-rs/compare/v0.2.1...v0.2.2 [0.2.1]: https://github.com/rust-cli/roff-rs/compare/v0.2.0...v0.2.1 [0.2.0]: https://github.com/assert-rs/assert_cmd/compare/v0.1.0...v0.2.0 [0.1.0]: https://github.com/assert-rs/assert_cmd/compare/21f419c71f025ef596e7954d62506ff8fe3fd7a2...v0.1.0

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