diff options
author | wkj <devnull@localhost> | 2004-05-16 08:07:11 +0000 |
---|---|---|
committer | wkj <devnull@localhost> | 2004-05-16 08:07:11 +0000 |
commit | dfc67f9b6dbbf741f3ee7a87082398347fa9410a (patch) | |
tree | dec29fafafbfbbfbc3f2fb97b68817c5e6ad63cd /man/man1/troff.1 | |
parent | 6cc703dc9a8154efe7d8fc0445656c8f44486f07 (diff) | |
download | plan9port-dfc67f9b6dbbf741f3ee7a87082398347fa9410a.tar.gz plan9port-dfc67f9b6dbbf741f3ee7a87082398347fa9410a.tar.bz2 plan9port-dfc67f9b6dbbf741f3ee7a87082398347fa9410a.zip |
Bring in some more man pages.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man1/troff.1')
-rw-r--r-- | man/man1/troff.1 | 198 |
1 files changed, 198 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/troff.1 b/man/man1/troff.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..db5b9e6f --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/troff.1 @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ +.TH TROFF 1 +.SH NAME +troff, nroff \- text formatting and typesetting +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B troff +[ +.I option ... +] +[ +.I file ... +] +.PP +.B nroff +[ +.I option ... +] +[ +.I file ... +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Troff +formats text in the named +.I files +for +printing on a typesetter. +.I Nroff +does the same, but produces output suitable +for typewriter-like devices. +.PP +If no +.I file +argument is present, the standard input is read. +An argument consisting of a single minus +.RB ( - ) +is taken to be +a file name corresponding to the standard input. +The options are: +.nr xx \w'\fL-m\f2name\ \ ' +.TP \n(xxu +.BI -o list +Print pages in the comma-separated +.I list +of numbers and ranges. +A range +.IB N - M +means +.I N +through +.IR M ; +initial +.BI - M +means up to +.IR M ; +final +.IB N - +means from +.I N +to the end. +.TP +.BI -n N +Number first generated page +.IR N . +.TP +.BI -m name +Process the macro file +.BI /sys/lib/tmac/tmac. name +before the input +.IR files . +.TP +.BI -r aN +Set register +.I a +(one character name) to +.IR N . +.TP +.B -i +Read standard input after the input files are exhausted. +.TP +.B -q +Invoke the simultaneous input-output mode of the +.B rd +request. +.TP +.B -N +Produce output suitable for typewriter-like devices. +.SS Typesetter devices (not \fL-N\fP) only +.TP \n(xxu +.B -a +Send a printable +textual +approximation +of the results to the standard output. +.TP +.BI -T dest +Prepare output for typesetter +.IR dest : +.br +.ns +.RS +.TP \w'\fL-TLatin1\ 'u +.B -Tutf +(The default.) PostScript printers with +preprocessing to handle Unicode +characters encoded in +.SM UTF +.PD0 +.TP +.B -Tpost +Regular PostScript printers +.PD0 +.TP +.B -T202 +Mergenthaler Linotron 202 +.RE +.PD +.TP "\w'\fL-m\f2name 'u" +.BI -F dir +Take font information from directory +.IR dir . +.SS Typewriter (\fL-N\fP) output only +.TP \n(xxu +.BI -s N +Halt prior to every +.I N +pages (default +.IR N =1) +to allow paper loading or changing. +.TP +.BI -T name +Prepare output for specified terminal. +Known +.I names +include +.B utf +for the normal Plan 9 +.SM UTF +encoding of the Unicode Standard character set (default), +.B 37 +for the +Teletype model 37, +.B lp +(`line-printer') +for any terminal without half-line capability, +.B 450 +for the \s-1DASI\s+1-450 +(Diablo Hyterm), +and +.B think +(HP ThinkJet). +.TP +.B -e +Produce equally-spaced words in adjusted +lines, using full terminal resolution. +.TP +.B -h +Use output tabs during horizontal spacing +to speed output and reduce output character count. +Tab settings are assumed to be every +8 nominal character widths. +.SH FILES +.TF /sys/lib/troff/term/* +.TP +.B /tmp/trtmp* +temporary file +.TP +.B /sys/lib/tmac/tmac.* +standard macro files +.TP +.B /sys/lib/troff/term/* +terminal driving tables for +.I nroff +.TP +.B /sys/lib/troff/font/* +font width tables for +.I troff +.SH SOURCE +.B /sys/src/cmd/troff +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IR lp (1), +.IR proof (1), +.IR eqn (1), +.IR tbl (1), +.IR pic (1), +.IR grap (1), +.IR doctype (1), +.IR ms (6), +.IR image (6), +.IR tex (1), +.IR deroff (1) +.br +J. F. Ossanna and B. W. Kernighan, +``Troff User's Manual'' +.br +B. W. Kernighan, +``A TROFF Tutorial'', +.I +Unix Research System Programmer's Manual, +Tenth Edition, Volume 2. |