Manual page for TROFF(1)
troff, nroff - text formatting and typesetting
SYNOPSIS
troff
[ option ] ...
[ file ] ...
nroff
[ option ] ...
[ file ] ...
DESCRIPTION
Troff
formats text in the named
files
for printing on a Graphic Systems C/A/T phototypesetter;
nroff
is used for for typewriter-like devices.
Their capabilities are described in the
Nroff/Troff user's manual.
If no
file
argument is present, the standard input is read.
An argument consisting of a single minus
(-)
is taken to be a file name corresponding to the standard input.
The options, which may appear in any order so long as they appear
before the files, are:
- -olist
-
Print only pages whose page numbers appear in the comma-separated
list
of numbers and ranges.
A range
N-M
means pages
N
through
M;
an initial
-N
means from the beginning to page
N;
and a final
N-
means from
N
to the end.
- -nN
-
Number first generated page
N.
- -sN
-
Stop every
N
pages.
Nroff
will halt prior to every
N
pages (default
N=1)
to allow paper loading or changing, and will resume upon receipt of a newline.
Troff
will stop the phototypesetter every
N
pages, produce a trailer to allow changing cassettes,
and resume when the typesetter's start button is pressed.
- -mname
-
Prepend the macro file
/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.name
to the input
files.
- -raN
-
Set register
a
(one-character) to
N.
- -i
-
Read standard input after the input files are exhausted.
- -q
-
Invoke the simultaneous input-output mode of the
rd
request.
- Troff only
-
- -t
-
Direct output to the standard output instead of the phototypesetter.
- -f
-
Refrain from feeding out paper and stopping
phototypesetter at the end of the run.
- -w
-
Wait until phototypesetter is available, if currently busy.
- -b
-
Report whether the phototypesetter is busy or available.
No text processing is done.
- -a
-
Send a printable ASCII approximation of the results to the standard output.
- -pN
-
Print all characters in point size
N
while retaining all prescribed spacings and motions,
to reduce phototypesetter elapsed time.
- -Ffontdir
-
The directory
fontdir
contains the font width tables instead of the default directory
/usr/lib/fonts. This option can be used to produce output for devices
besides the phototypesetter.
If the file
/usr/adm/tracct
is writable,
troff
keeps phototypesetter accounting records there.
The integrity of that file may be secured by making
troff
a 'set user-id' program.
FILES
/tmp/ta* temporary file
/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.* standard macro files
/usr/lib/term/* terminal driving tables for
nroff
/usr/lib/font/* font width tables for
troff
/dev/cat phototypesetter
/usr/adm/tracct accounting statistics for /dev/cat
SEE ALSO
J. F. Ossanna,
Nroff/Troff user's manual
B. W. Kernighan,
A TROFF Tutorial
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