On Jun 03 2009 (Wed, 23:53), Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thank you everybody for this very interesting thread!!
>
> as someone who came to groff via it's makro-sets (mom in my case): may i ask
> for a short indication on how to accomplish this (or where to find it in TFM):
> > > last not least: groff can produce reasonably formatting of ASCII
> > > documents.
you simply select an appropriate output device with the '-T' option of
'groff'. from the manpage:
....
-T dev Set output device to dev. Contrary to troff, groff calls a
postprocessor to convert troff's intermediate output to its fi-
nal format. Real devices in groff are
dvi TeX DVI format (postprocessor is grodvi).
html HTML output (preprocessors are soelim and
pre-grohtml, postprocessor is post-grohtml).
lbp Canon CAPSL printers (LBP-4 and LBP-8 series laser
printers; postprocessor is grolbp).
lj4 HP LaserJet4 compatible (or other PCL5 compatible)
printers (postprocessor is grolj4).
ps PostScript output (postprocessor is grops).
For the following TTY output devices (postprocessor is always
grotty), -T selects the output encoding:
ascii 7bit ASCII.
cp1047 Latin-1 character set for EBCDIC hosts.
latin1 ISO 8859-1.
utf8 Unicode character set in UTF-8 encoding.
....
the latter 4 send output to TTY. I usually use 'groff -Tlatin1'.
joerg
