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    TROFF(1)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual		 TROFF(1)

    NAME
         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 chang-
    	    ing, 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/share/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

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    TROFF(1)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual		 TROFF(1)

    	    phototypesetter at the end of the run.

         -w     Wait until phototypesetter is available, if currently
    	    busy.

         -b     Report whether the phototypesetter is busy or avail-
    	    able.  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 photo-
    	    typesetter elapsed time.

         -Ffontdir
    	    The directory fontdir contains the font width tables
    	    instead of the default directory /usr/share/fonts.
    	    This option can be used to produce output for devices
    	    besides the phototypesetter.

         If the file /usr/adm/tracct is writable, troff keeps photo-
         typesetter 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/share/tmac/tmac.*  standard macro files
         /usr/share/term/*	     terminal driving tables for nroff
         /usr/share/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
         eqn(1), tbl(1), ms(7), me(7), man(7), col(1)

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