NROFF(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     NROFF(1)

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 neither the GROFF_TYPESETTER 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 variables 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,  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

       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.

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)

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 1989-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this  permission  notice  are
       preserved on all copies.

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       entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the  above  conditions  for  modified
       versions,  except  that  this  permission notice may be included in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the
       original English.

Groff Version 1.22.3                                             10 February 2018                                                         NROFF(1)