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Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 17 March 2002
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NAME

nroff - emulate nroff command with groff

SYNOPSIS

nroff [ -h ] [ -i ] [ -m name ] [ -n num ] [ -o list ] [ -p ] [ -r cn ] [ -t ] [ -S ] [ -T name ] [ -U ] [ -v ] [ file... ]

DESCRIPTION

The nroff script emulates the nroff command using groff. Only ascii, ascii8, latin1, utf8, nippon, and cp1047 are valid arguments for the -T option. If an invalid or no -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 LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG, and finally the LESSCHARSET environment variable.

The -h option is equivalent to the grotty's -h option (i.e., using tabs in the output). The -i, -n, -m, -o and -r options have the effect described in troff(1). In addition, nroff silently ignores the options -e, -q, and -s (which are not implemented in troff). Options -p (pic), -t (tbl), -S (safer), and -U (unsafe) are passed to groff. -S is passed by default. -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.

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