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gnroff (1)

Name

gnroff - emulate nroff command with groff

Synopsis

gnroff [-CchipStUvwW] [-dcs] [-Mdir] [-mname] [-nnum] [-olist] [-rcn]
[-Tname] [file ...]
gnroff --help
gnroff -v | --version

Description

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NAME
       gnroff - emulate nroff command with groff

SYNOPSIS
       gnroff [-CchipStUvwW] [-dcs] [-Mdir] [-mname] [-nnum] [-olist] [-rcn]
              [-Tname] [file ...]
       gnroff --help
       gnroff -v | --version

DESCRIPTION
       The gnroff script emulates the nroff command using groff.  Only  ascii,
       latin1,  utf8,  and  cp1047 are devices accepted by nroff to select the
       output encoding emitted by grotty, groff's TTY output device.  If  nei-
       ther  the GROFF_TYPESETTER environment variable nor the -T command line
       option (which overrides the environment variable) specifies  a  (valid)
       device,  gnroff  checks  the  current locale to select a default output
       device.  It first tries the locale program, then the environment  vari-
       ables  LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG, and finally the LESSCHARSET environ-
       ment 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,  -r,  -w,  and  -W
       options  have  the  effect described in gtroff(1).  In addition, gnroff
       silently ignores the options -e, -q, and -s (which are not  implemented
       in  gtroff).   Options  -p (pic), -t (tbl), -S (safer), and -U (unsafe)
       are passed to groff.  -v and --version show the version number,  --help
       prints a help message.

ENVIRONMENT
       GROFF_TYPESETTER
              The  default  device for groff.  If not set (which is the normal
              case), it defaults to `ps'.

       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.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |   ATTRIBUTE VALUE     |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Availability   | text/groff/groff-core |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted           |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
NOTES
       This shell script is basically intended for use  with  man(1).   nroff-
       style character definitions (in the file tty-char.tmac) are also loaded
       to emulate unrepresentable glyphs.

SEE ALSO
       groff(1), gtroff(1), grotty(1)


       This    software    was    built    from    source     available     at
       https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.    The  original  community
       source                was                downloaded                from
       http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.22.2.tar.gz

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/.



Groff Version 1.22.2            7 February 2013                      GNROFF(1)