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1.1 root 1: .TH TROFF 1 "7 February 1983"
2: .SH NAME
3: troff, nroff \- text formatting and typesetting
4: .SH SYNOPSIS
5: .B troff
6: [ option ] ...
7: [ file ] ...
8: .PP
9: .B nroff
10: [ option ] ...
11: [ file ] ...
12: .SH DESCRIPTION
13: .I Troff
14: formats text in the named
15: .I files
16: for printing on a Graphic Systems C/A/T phototypesetter;
17: .I nroff
18: is used for for typewriter-like devices.
19: Their capabilities are described in the
20: .I Nroff/Troff user's manual.
21: .PP
22: If no
23: .I file
24: argument is present, the standard input is read.
25: An argument consisting of a single minus
26: .RB ( \- )
27: is taken to be a file name corresponding to the standard input.
28: The options, which may appear in any order so long as they appear
29: before the files, are:
30: .TP "\w'\f3\-m\f1name 'u"
31: .BI \-o list
32: Print only pages whose page numbers appear in the comma-separated
33: .I list
34: of numbers and ranges.
35: A range
36: .IB N \- M
37: means pages
38: .I N
39: through
40: .IR M ;
41: an initial
42: .I \-N
43: means from the beginning to page
44: .IR N ;
45: and a final
46: .IR N \-
47: means from
48: .I N
49: to the end.
50: .TP
51: .BI \-n N
52: Number first generated page
53: .IR N .
54: .TP
55: .BI \-s N
56: Stop every
57: .I N
58: pages.
59: .I Nroff
60: will halt prior to every
61: .I N
62: pages (default
63: .IR N =1)
64: to allow paper loading or changing, and will resume upon receipt of a newline.
65: .I Troff
66: will stop the phototypesetter every
67: .I N
68: pages, produce a trailer to allow changing cassettes,
69: and resume when the typesetter's start button is pressed.
70: .TP
71: .BI \-m name
72: Prepend the macro file
73: .BI /usr/lib/tmac/tmac. name
74: to the input
75: .IR files .
76: .TP
77: .BI \-r aN
78: Set register
79: .I a
80: (one-character) to
81: .IR N .
82: .TP
83: .B \-i
84: Read standard input after the input files are exhausted.
85: .TP
86: .B \-q
87: Invoke the simultaneous input-output mode of the
88: .B rd
89: request.
90: .HP
91: .bd I 3
92: .I Troff only
93: .br
94: .bd I
95: .TP
96: .B \-t
97: Direct output to the standard output instead of the phototypesetter.
98: .TP
99: .B \-f
100: Refrain from feeding out paper and stopping
101: phototypesetter at the end of the run.
102: .TP
103: .B \-w
104: Wait until phototypesetter is available, if currently busy.
105: .TP
106: .B \-b
107: Report whether the phototypesetter is busy or available.
108: No text processing is done.
109: .TP
110: .B \-a
111: Send a printable ASCII approximation of the results to the standard output.
112: .TP
113: .BR \-p N
114: Print all characters in point size
115: .I N
116: while retaining all prescribed spacings and motions,
117: to reduce phototypesetter elapsed time.
118: .TP
119: .BI \-F fontdir
120: The directory
121: .I fontdir contains the font width tables instead of the default directory
122: /usr/lib/fonts. This option can be used to produce output for devices
123: besides the phototypesetter.
124: .PP
125: If the file
126: .I /usr/adm/tracct
127: is writable,
128: .I troff
129: keeps phototypesetter accounting records there.
130: The integrity of that file may be secured by making
131: .I troff
132: a 'set user-id' program.
133: .SH FILES
134: .ta \w'/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.* 'u
135: /tmp/ta* temporary file
136: .br
137: /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.* standard macro files
138: .br
139: /usr/lib/term/* terminal driving tables for
140: .I nroff
141: .br
142: /usr/lib/font/* font width tables for
143: .I troff
144: .br
145: /dev/cat phototypesetter
146: .br
147: /usr/adm/tracct accounting statistics for /dev/cat
148: .SH "SEE ALSO"
149: J. F. Ossanna,
150: .I Nroff/Troff user's manual
151: .br
152: B. W. Kernighan,
153: .I
154: A TROFF Tutorial
155: .br
156: eqn(1), tbl(1), ms(7), me(7), man(7), col(1)
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