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'''N/t/roff''' or '''/.ROFF/''' (regular expression) is a document formatting language used to instruct an automated typesetter/typewriter (i.e. printer) to set/print a document's text. Its name is an acronym of ''New Runoff'' and ''Typesetter Runoff'' respectively. For document preparation purposes (i.e. its designed use), the rules of how text is laid out is written in a ''/.ROFF/ source file''. /.ROFF/ is a predecessor of TeX, and so its ability is a subset of that of TeX and its core values is indeed very similar to that of TeX. To assist the writer in writing documents, macro packages, such as ''-me'', ''-ms'', ''-mm'', and ''-mom''; typefaces and their fonts, such as ''Avant Garde'', ''Helvetica'', and ''Times Roman''; and preprocessors like ''eqn'', ''pic'', and ''tbl'' are available at the writer's disposal. These macro packages and extensions are similar to what LaTeX provides to plain TeX.