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Re: [Groff] plain ascii w/o control chars


From: Colin Watson
Subject: Re: [Groff] plain ascii w/o control chars
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:10:32 +0000
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:03:20PM -0300, Ricardo Fabbri wrote:
> I have some manpages containing numerous .B, \fB and \fI
> directives.  How do I generate plain ASCII output, WITHOUT ANY
> CONTROL CHARACTERS OR ESCAPE SEQUENCES??

Use the -Tascii switch to nroff (or groff), and pipe the output through
'col -b' to turn bold and underline formatting into plain text.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden

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