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