User Commands 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 typesetter Nroff does the same but produces output suitable for typewriter like devices 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 stan
NROFFE TROFF User s Manual Joseph F Ossanna Bell Laboratories Murray Hill New Jersey 07974 Introduction NROFF and TROFF are text processors under the PDP 11 UNIX Time Sharing System that format text for typewriter like terminals and for a Graphic Systems phototypesetter respectively They accept lines of text inter spersed with lines of format control information and format the text into a printable paginated document having a user designed style NROFF and TROFF o