It's pure roff.  That's the language that all the macro packages are 
implemented in.  Think of roff as assembler and the macro packages as
C and you are pretty close.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:58:45PM +0100, Lars Segerlund wrote:
> 
>   I have been looking at the output from pic, eqn and friends, and I am a bit 
> amiss to
>  what 'language' they speak, it's not groff intermidiate language to be fed 
> inte gtroff,
>  so what is it then ? 
> 
>   Also what is the recommended language for a groff preprocessor ?
> 
>  I have been oogling the doc's but I am unclear so far, and I thought I would 
> ask before
>  reading the source.
> 
>  / thanks, Lars segerlund.
> 
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