man.conf(5) [osx man page]

MAN.CONF(5)							File Formats Manual						       MAN.CONF(5)

NAME

       man.conf - configuration data for man

DESCRIPTION

       This  file is read by man(1) and contains (a) information on how to construct the search path for man, (b) full path names for various pro-
       grams like nroff, eqn, tbl etc. used by man, and (c) a list with uncompressors for files with a given extension.  An alternative version of
       this file can be specified with

	      man -C private_man.conf ...

       The  command  names  may be provided with options.  Useful options to nroff can be found in grotty(1).  For example, instead of the default
       line

	      NROFF /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -Tlatin1

       one may write

	      NROFF /usr/bin/groff -mandoc -Tlatin1 -P-u -P-b

       in order to suppress underlining and overstriking.

FILES

       /private/etc/man.conf

AUTHOR

       John W. Eaton was the original author of man.  Zeyd M. Ben-Halim released man 1.2, and Andries Brouwer followed up with versions  1.3  thru
       1.5p.  Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi@acm.org> is the current maintainer.

SEE ALSO

       col(1), (g)eqn(1), (g)pic(1), groff(1), grotty(1), (g)refer(1), (g)tbl(1), less(1), man (1) and compress(1), gzip(1).

								September 19, 2005						       MAN.CONF(5)

NROFF(1)						      General Commands Manual							  NROFF(1)

NAME

       nroff - emulate nroff command with groff

SYNOPSIS

       nroff [ -h ] [ -i ] [ -mname ] [ -nnum ] [ -olist ] [ -p ] [ -rcn ] [ -S ] [ -t ] [ -Tname ] [ -U ] [ -v ] [ file ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  nroff  script emulates the nroff command using groff.  Only ascii, latin1, utf8, and cp1047 are valid arguments for the -T option.	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 -C, -i, -n, -m, -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 warnings 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 1.18.1						     Nov  2003								  NROFF(1)