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NAME
troff - typeset text
USAGE
troff [ options ] [ files ]
DESCRIPTION
Troff formats text found in files (standard input by
default) for printing on a phototypesetter.
An argument consisting of a dash (-) is interpreted as a
filename corresponding to the standard input.
The options below may appear in any order, but must appear
before the files.
Note: This version of troff is an older one (pre-System 5),
because the System 5 version is only available through the
AT&T Documenter's Workbench, which Apollo is not yet
licensed to provide.
OPTIONS
-olist Print only pages whose page numbers appear in the
list of numbers and ranges, separated by commas.
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.
-raN Set register a (which must have a one-character
name) to N.
-i Read standard input after files are exhausted.
-q Invoke the simultaneous input/output mode of the
.rd request.
-z Print only messages generated by .tm (terminal
message) requests.
-mname Prepend to the input files the non-compacted
(ASCII text) macro file /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.name.
-cname Prepend to the input files the
/usr/lib/macros/cmp.[nt].[dt].name and
/usr/lib/macros/ucmp.[nt].name compacted macro
files.
-kname Compact the macros used in this invocation, plac-
ing the output in [dt].name files in the current
directory.
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-sN Stop the phototypesetter every N pages (the
default is one), produce a trailer to allow chang-
ing of cassettes, and resume when the typesetter's
start button is pressed. When troff halts between
pages, the message page stop is sent to the termi-
nal.
-t Direct output to the standard output instead of
the phototypesetter.
-f Refrain from feeding out paper and stopping photo-
typesetter at the end of the run.
-w Wait until phototypesetter is available, if it is
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 retain-
ing all prescribed spacings and motions, to reduce
phototypesetter elapsed time.
-Tname Use font-width tables for device name (the font
tables are found in /usr/lib/font/ name /*).
Currently, no names are supported.
CAUTIONS
Troff believes in Eastern Standard Time. As a result,
depending on the time of the year and on your local time
zone, the date that troff generates may be off by one day
from your idea of what the date is.
Using troff with the -olist option inside a pipeline, may
cause a harmless ``broken pipe'' diagnostic if the last page
of the document is not specified in list.
FILES
/usr/lib/suftab
suffix hyphenation tables
/tmp/ta$#
temporary file
/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.*
standard macro files and pointers
/usr/lib/macros/*
standard macro files
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/usr/lib/font/*
font width tables for troff
RELATED INFORMATION
col (1), cw (1), eqn (1), mm (1), mmt (1), nroff (1), tbl
(1).
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