NAME
nroff - emulate nroff command with groff SYNOPSIS
nroff [-CchipStUvwW] [-dcs] [-Mdir] [-mname] [-nnum] [-olist] [-rcn]
[-Tname] [file ...] nroff help
nroff -v | version DESCRIPTION The nroff 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 GROFFTYPESETTER environment variable nor the -T command line option (which overrides the environment variable) specifies a (valid) device, nroff checks the current locale to select a default output device. It first tries the locale program, then the environment vari‐ ables LCALL, LCCTYPE, 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, 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 and version show the version number, help prints a help message. ENVIRONMENT GROFFTYPESETTER The default device for groff. If not set (which is the normal case), it defaults to `ps'. GROFFBINPATH 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). 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 1.22.2 7 February 2013 NROFF(1)