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              If  the latin1 column displays correctly, your terminal may be set up for latin1 characters and this option is not necessary.  If the latin1 and ascii columns are identical, you are reading this page using this
              option or man did not format this page using the latin1 device description.  If the latin1 column is missing or corrupt, you may need to view manual pages with this option.

              This option is ignored when using options -t, -H, -T, or -Z and may be useless for nroff other than GNU’s.

       -E encoding, --encoding=encoding
              Generate output for a character encoding other than the default.  For backward compatibility, encoding may be an nroff device such as ascii, latin1, or utf8 as well as a true character encoding such as UTF-8.

       --no-hyphenation, --nh
              Normally, nroff will automatically hyphenate text at line breaks even in words that do not contain hyphens, if it is necessary to do so to lay out words on a line without excessive spacing.   This  option  dis‐
              ables automatic hyphenation, so words will only be hyphenated if they already contain hyphens.

              If  you  are  writing a manual page and simply want to prevent nroff from hyphenating a word at an inappropriate point, do not use this option, but consult the nroff documentation instead; for instance, you can
              put "\%" inside a word to indicate that it may be hyphenated at that point, or put "\%" at the start of a word to prevent it from being hyphenated.

       --no-justification, --nj
              Normally, nroff will automatically justify text to both margins.  This option disables full justification, leaving justified only to the left margin, sometimes called "ragged‐right" text.

              If you are writing a manual page and simply want to prevent nroff from justifying certain paragraphs, do not use this option, but consult the nroff documentation instead; for instance, you can  use  the  ".na",
              ".nf", ".fi", and ".ad" requests to temporarily disable adjusting and filling.

       -p string, --preprocessor=string
              Specify the sequence of preprocessors to run before nroff or troff/groff.  Not all installations will have a full set of preprocessors.  Some of the preprocessors and the letters used to designate them are: eqn
              (e), grap (g), pic (p), tbl (t), vgrind (v), refer (r).  This option overrides the $MANROFFSEQ environment variable.  zsoelim is always run as the very first preprocessor.

       -t, --troff
              Use groff -mandoc to format the manual page to stdout.  This option is not required in conjunction with -H, -T, or -Z.

       -T[device], --troff-device[=device]
              This  option  is used to change groff (or possibly troff’s) output to be suitable for a device other than the default.  It implies -t.  Examples (provided with Groff‐1.17) include dvi, latin1, ps, utf8, X75 and
              X100.

       -H[browser], --html[=browser]
              This option will cause groff to produce HTML output, and will display that output in a web browser.  The choice of browser is determined by the optional browser argument if one is provided, by the $BROWSER  en‐
              vironment variable, or by a compile‐time default if that is unset (usually lynx).  This option implies -t, and will only work with GNU troff.

       -X[dpi], --gxditview[=dpi]
              This  option  displays  the  output  of groff in a graphical window using the gxditview program.  The dpi (dots per inch) may be 75, 75‐12, 100, or 100‐12, defaulting to 75; the ‐12 variants use a 12‐point base
              font.  This option implies -T with the X75, X75‐12, X100, or X100‐12 device respectively.

       -Z, --ditroff
              groff will run troff and then use an appropriate post‐processor to produce output

Title: Man Page Formatting Options: Hyphenation, Justification, Preprocessors, and Output Devices
Summary
This section details further formatting options for `man` pages, including disabling hyphenation (`--no-hyphenation`), disabling justification (`--no-justification`), specifying preprocessors (`-p`), using troff (`-t`), selecting a troff device (`-T`), generating HTML output (`-H`), displaying output in a graphical window (`-X`), and using ditroff (`-Z`).