nroff(1) nroff(1)

NAME

 nroff - emulate nroff command with groff

SYNOPSIS

 nroff [ -CchipStUv ] [ -dcs ] [ -Mdir ] [ -mname ] [ -nnum ] [ -olist ]
 [ -rcn ] [ -Tname ] [ file ... ]

DESCRIPTION

 The nroff script emulates the nroff command using groff. Only ascii,
 latin1, utf8, and cp1047 are valid arguments for the -T option, select-
 ing the output encoding emitted by grotty, groff's TTY output device.
 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 and -c options are equivalent to grotty's options -h (using tabs
 in the output) and -c (using the old output scheme instead of SGR
 escape sequences). The -d, -C, -i, -M, -m, -n, -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. -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 warn-
 ings 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) 
Groff Version 1.19.2 12 April 2005 nroff(1)