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NAME

groff - front-end for the groff document formatting system

SYNOPSIS

[file | | [option

The command line is parsed according to the usual GNU convention. The whitespace between a command line option and its argument is optional. Options can be grouped behind a single (minus character). A filename of (minus character) denotes the standard input.

DESCRIPTION

This document describes the groff program, the main front-end for the groff document formatting system. The groff program and macro suite is the implementation of a roff(7) system within the free software collection The groff system has all features of the classical roff, but adds many extensions.

The groff program allows to control the whole groff system by command line options. This is a great simplification in comparison to the classical case (which uses pipes only).

OPTIONS

As groff is a wrapper program for troff both programs share a set of options. But the groff program has some additional, native options and gives a new meaning to some troff options. On the other hand, not all troff options can be fed into groff.

Native groff Options

The following options either do not exist for troff or are differently interpreted by groff.
6 February 2006 Groff Version 1.19.2