p) Remove the
'-a' option (the ASCII approximation output).
I didn't even know this existed. Looking at what it spits out, I find
myself wondering what good it is. Is this for Unix troff compatibility?
For people who didn't even have glass TTYs and needed to imagine what
the typeset output would look like?
Here's a classic use:
Since groff is not WYSIWYG, the experimental cycle is long:
edit - save - groff - view. In many cases that cycle can be
short-circuited by typing straight into groff -a.
doug