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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man1/nroff.1 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man1/nroff.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6edf30ce --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man1/nroff.1 @@ -0,0 +1,358 @@ +.TH \%nroff 1 "4 October 2023" "groff 1.23.0" +.SH Name +\%nroff \- format documents with +.I groff +for TTY (terminal) devices +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.\" Legal Terms +.\" ==================================================================== +.\" +.\" Copyright (C) 1989-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of +.\" this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that +.\" the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of +.\" a permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this +.\" manual into another language, under the above conditions for +.\" modified versions, except that this permission notice may be +.\" included in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation +.\" instead of in the original English. +. +. +.\" Save and disable compatibility mode (for, e.g., Solaris 10/11). +.do nr *groff_nroff_1_man_C \n[.cp] +.cp 0 +. +.\" Define fallback for groff 1.23's MR macro if the system lacks it. +.nr do-fallback 0 +.if !\n(.f .nr do-fallback 1 \" mandoc +.if \n(.g .if !d MR .nr do-fallback 1 \" older groff +.if !\n(.g .nr do-fallback 1 \" non-groff *roff +.if \n[do-fallback] \{\ +. de MR +. ie \\n(.$=1 \ +. I \%\\$1 +. el \ +. IR \%\\$1 (\\$2)\\$3 +. . +.\} +.rr do-fallback +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH Synopsis +.\" ==================================================================== +. +.SY \%nroff +.RB [ \-bcCEhikpRStUVz ] +.RB [ \-d\~\c +.IR ctext ] +.RB [ \-d\~\c +.IB string =\c +.IR text ] +.RB [ \-K\~\c +.IR fallback-encoding ] +.RB [ \-m\~\c +.IR macro-package ] +.RB [ \-M\~\c +.IR macro-directory ] +.RB [ \-n\~\c +.IR page-number ] +.RB [ \-o\~\c +.IR page-list ] +.RB [ \-P\~\c +.IR postprocessor-argument ] +.RB [ \-r\~\c +.IR cnumeric-expression ] +.RB [ \-r\~\c +.IB register =\c +.IR numeric-expression ] +.RB [ \-T\~\c +.IR output-device ] +.RB [ \-w\~\c +.IR warning-category ] +.RB [ \-W\~\c +.IR warning-category ] +.RI [ file\~ .\|.\|.] +.YS +. +. +.SY \%nroff +.B \-\-help +.YS +. +. +.SY \%nroff +.B \-v +. +.SY \%nroff +.B \-\-version +.YS +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH Description +.\" ==================================================================== +. +.I \%nroff +formats documents written in the +.MR groff 7 +language for typewriter-like devices such as terminal emulators. +. +GNU +.I nroff \" GNU +emulates the AT&T +.I nroff \" AT&T +command using +.MR groff 1 . +. +.I \%nroff +generates output via +.MR grotty 1 , +.IR groff 's +terminal output driver, +which needs to know the character encoding scheme used by the device. +. +Consequently, +acceptable arguments to the +.B \-T +option are +.BR ascii , +.BR latin1 , +.BR utf8 , +and +.BR cp1047 ; +any others are ignored. +. +If neither the +.I \%GROFF_TYPESETTER +environment variable nor the +.B \-T +command-line option +(which overrides the environment variable) +specifies a (valid) device, +.I \%nroff +consults the locale to select an appropriate output device. +. +It first tries the +.MR locale 1 +program, +then checks several locale-related environment variables; +see section \[lq]Environment\[rq] below. +. +If all of the foregoing fail, +.B \-Tascii +is implied. +. +. +.P +The +.BR \-b , +.BR \-c , +.BR \-C , +.BR \-d , +.BR \-E , +.BR \-i , +.BR \-m , +.BR \-M , +.BR \-n , +.BR \-o , +.BR \-r , +.BR \-U , +.BR \-w , +.BR \-W , +and +.B \-z +options have the effects described in +.MR \%troff 1 . +. +.B \-c +and +.B \-h +imply +.RB \[lq] \-P\-c \[rq] +and +.RB \[lq] \-P\-h \[rq], +respectively; +.B \-c +is also interpreted directly by +.IR \%troff . +. +In addition, +this implementation ignores the AT&T +.I nroff \" AT&T +options +.BR \-e , +.BR \-q , +and +.B \-s +(which are not implemented in +.IR groff ). +. +The options +.BR \-k , +.BR \-K , +.BR \-p , +.BR \-P , +.BR \-R , +.BR \-t , +and +.B \-S +are documented in +.MR groff 1 . +. +.B \-V +causes +.I \%nroff +to display the constructed +.I groff +command on the standard output stream, +but does not execute it. +. +.B \-v +and +.B \-\-version +show version information about +.I \%nroff +and the programs it runs, +while +.B \-\-help +displays a usage message; +all exit afterward. +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH "Exit status" +.\" ==================================================================== +. +.I \%nroff +exits with error +.RB status\~ 2 +if there was a problem parsing its arguments, +with +.RB status\~ 0 +if any of the options +.BR \-V , +.BR \-v , +.BR \-\-version , +or +.B \-\-help +were specified, +and with the status of +.I groff +otherwise. +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH Environment +.\" ==================================================================== +. +Normally, +the path separator in environment variables ending with +.I PATH +is the colon; +this may vary depending on the operating system. +. +For example, +Windows uses a semicolon instead. +. +. +.TP +.I GROFF_BIN_PATH +is a colon-separated list of directories in which to search for the +.I groff +executable before searching in +.IR PATH . +. +If unset, +.I /usr/\:\%bin +is used. +. +. +.TP +.I GROFF_TYPESETTER +specifies the default output device for +.IR groff . +. +. +.TP +.I LC_ALL +.TQ +.I LC_CTYPE +.TQ +.I LANG +.TQ +.I LESSCHARSET +are pattern-matched in this order for contents matching standard +character encodings supported by +.I groff +in the event no +.B \-T +option is given and +.I \%GROFF_TYPESETTER +is unset, +or the values specified are invalid. +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH Files +.\" ==================================================================== +. +.TP +.I /usr/\:\%share/\:\%groff/\:\%1.23.0/\:\%tmac/\:\%tty\-char\:.tmac +defines fallback definitions of +.I roff +special characters. +. +These definitions more poorly optically approximate typeset output +than those of +.I tty.tmac +in favor of communicating semantic information. +. +.I nroff +loads it automatically. +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH Notes +.\" ==================================================================== +. +Pager programs like +.MR more 1 +and +.MR less 1 +may require command-line options to correctly handle some output +sequences; +see +.MR grotty 1 . +. +. +.\" ==================================================================== +.SH "See also" +.\" ==================================================================== +. +.MR groff 1 , +.MR \%troff 1 , +.MR grotty 1 , +.MR locale 1 , +.MR roff 7 +. +. +.\" Restore compatibility mode (for, e.g., Solaris 10/11). +.cp \n[*groff_nroff_1_man_C] +.do rr *groff_nroff_1_man_C +. +. +.\" Local Variables: +.\" fill-column: 72 +.\" mode: nroff +.\" End: +.\" vim: set filetype=groff textwidth=72: |