grotty
Groff terminal output driver
TLDR
Display in terminal
$ groff -Tutf8 [file.roff]
ASCII output$ groff -Tascii [file.roff]
Direct grotty usage$ grotty [file]
Disable SGR sequences$ grotty -c [file]
SYNOPSIS
grotty [options] [file]
DESCRIPTION
grotty is a groff output driver for terminal display. It produces ASCII or UTF-8 output suitable for viewing in text terminals, supporting bold and underline via SGR escape sequences or overstriking.
It is the driver used for man page display and terminal document viewing.
PARAMETERS
FILE
Groff intermediate output.-b
Suppress bold sequences.-c
Use old-style output (no SGR).-d
Ignore SGR escapes.-f
Feed mode for printers.-i
Use italic font.-o
Suppress overstriking.-u
Suppress underlining.-F DIR
Font directory.--help
Display help information.
CAVEATS
Part of groff package. Output quality depends on terminal capabilities. Some formatting lost in text mode.
HISTORY
grotty was developed as part of GNU groff to enable terminal viewing of formatted documents.