nroff
verbUK /ˈɛnɹɒf/
Etymology Name of the program, short for new roff; an earlier similar program was called roff, a shortening of runoff.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To format (text) using the nroff program, which produces output suitable for simple fixed-width printers and terminal windows.
- The user either selects a new filename, edits the default file, nroffs it to the screen, or to a printer, or logs out.1985, Eric Foxley, UNIX for super-users, page 158:
- You could contrive macro sets that nroffed a document onto a printer […]1991, Computer Language, volume 8, page 18: