HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

nroff(1) nroff(1)

X for a (generic) EBCDIC printer

2631 for the Hewlett-Packard 2631 line printer

klp for a (generic) 16-bit character printer having ratio of 2 to 3 in 8-bit and

16-bit character width

lj for Hewlett-Packard PCL3 and newer laser printers.

-e Produce equally-spaced words in adjusted lines, using the full resolution of the partic-

ular terminal.

-h Use output tabs during horizontal spacing to speed output and reduce output charac-

ter count. Tab settings are assumed to be every eight nominal character widths.

-un Set the emboldening factor (number of character overstrikes) for the third font posi-

tion (bold) to n, or to zero if n is missing.

-P If this option is speciﬁed on the command line, it allows the use of the special feature

provided by some Asian printers which prints two column wide characters in 3/2

column wide boxes.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

LC_CTYPE determines the interpretation of text as single and/or multi-byte characters.

LANG is used to determine the search path for the -m option. LANG also determines the language in which

messages are displayed.

If LC_CTYPE is not speciﬁed in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of

LANG is used as

a default for each unspeciﬁed or empty variable. If

LANG is not speciﬁed or is set to the empty string, a

default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of LANG. If any internationalization variable contains an invalid

setting, nroff behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to "C". See environ(5).

EXAMPLES

The following command prints the ﬁrst ﬁve pages of the document whose

nroff source ﬁle is ﬁlename:

nroff -o-5 ﬁlename

Note that there should not be a space between the o and the - or the -

and the 5.

To print only pages 1, 3, and 4 type:

nroff -o1,3,4 ﬁlename

WARNINGS

When nroff is used with the -olist option inside a pipeline, it may cause a harmless "broken pipe" diag-