nroff

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NAME

nroff - emulate nroff command with groff

SYNOPSIS

nroff file ... ]

DESCRIPTION

The nroff script emulates the nroff command using groff. Only R ascii , R ascii8 , R latin1 , R utf8 , R nippon , and cp1047 are valid arguments for the -T option. If an invalid or no R -T option is given, nroff checks the current locale to select a default output device. It first tries the locale program, then the environment variables R LC_ALL , R LC_CTYPE , and R LANG , and finally the LESSCHARSET environment variable.
The -h and -c options are equivalent to R grotty 's options -h (using tabs in the output) and -c (using the old output scheme instead of SGR escape sequences). The R -C , R -i , R -n , R -m , R -o , and -r options have the effect described in troff(1). In addition, nroff silently ignores the options R -e , R -q , and R -s (which are not implemented in R troff ). Options -p (pic), -t (tbl), -S (safer), and -U (unsafe) are passed to R groff . -v shows the version number.

ENVIRONMENT

GROFF_BIN_PATH A colon separated list of directories in which to search for the groff executable before searching in PATH. If unset, `/usr/bin' is used.

NOTES

This shell script is basically intended for use with man(1), so warnings are suppressed. nroff-style character definitions (in the file tty-char.tmac) are also loaded to emulate unrepresentable glyphs.

SEE ALSO

groff(1), troff(1), grotty(1) .