gnroff - emulate nroff command with groff
gnroff [-CchipStUvwW] [-dcs] [-Mdir] [-mname] [-nnum] [-olist] [-rcn] [-Tname] [file ...] gnroff --help gnroff -v | --version
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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 troff(1). In addition, gnroff
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 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(7) 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.
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.22.3.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.gnu.org/software/groff.
SEE ALSO
groff(1), troff(1), grotty(1)
COPYING
Copyright (C) 1989-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this man-
ual into another language, under the above conditions for modified ver-
sions, except that this permission notice may be included in transla-
tions approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the origi-
nal English.
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