---
name: "roffit"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "roffit"
version: "0.16-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/roffit"
---

# roffit(1)

convert nroff to HTML

## NAME

roffit - convert nroff to HTML

## SYNOPSIS

**roffit \[options\] \< inputfile \> outputfile**

## DESCRIPTION

**roffit** converts the *inputfile* to *outputfile*. The *inputfile* must be an nroff formatted man page, and the *outputfile* will be an HTML document.

## OPTIONS

- \--bare

  The output HTML will not include any HTML, HEAD or BODY tags. Also not that when this is selected, there will be no inlined CSS but you will have to define the necessary classes yourself.

- \--version

  Display version number and exit

- \--mandir=\<dir\>

  Set a directory in which *roffit* will check for other man pages (in nroff \[name\].\[num\] format) that this one refers to. If found, a \<a href\> link will be made to that page with a html extension instead of the number. The file name in the generated link will be prefixed by the dir given with *--hrefdir*.

  This works for references specified as *manpage(3)* (within the emhpasis foformatting) and in a plain .BR section (often used in the SEE ALSO section).

- \--hrefdir=\<dir\>

  Specify a directory to prefix generated href links created with the --mandir option. This defaults to ".".

- \--preserve-case

  When used, this makes roffit preserve the case in SH (section header) in the output instead of uppercasing the first letter and doing the rest lowercase. The case changing was introduced in roffit 0.13.

## CSS CLASSES

- h2.nroffsh

  The nroff ".SH" section. These are normally the "headlines" before each sub section within the man page.

- p.nroffip

  The nroff ".IP" section. These are normally the bullet kind used to list each option out of several in a list. Usually followed by a *p.level0* containining the descriptive text.

- p.level0

  Normal text at the first level. Normally not indented.

- p.level1

  Text at next logical indent level. Normally indented one level right.

- p.level2

  Text at the second logical indent level. Normally indented two levels right.

- span.bold

  Text marked to be bold.

- span.manpage

  Text marked as a reference to another man page.

- span.emphasis

  Text marked to be emphasized.

- p.roffit

  Used for the advertising final paragraph.

## WWW

https://daniel.haxx.se/projects/roffit