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Re: [Groff] plain ascii w/o control chars
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Alejandro Lopez-Valencia |
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Re: [Groff] plain ascii w/o control chars |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:32:44 -0500 |
Colin Watson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>
Now, for those of us impaired with no real UNIX on sight, where can we find
the source code to comp0ile it ourselves?
Mind you, GNU textutils *does not* have a col command included. Perhaps BSDish
systems do?
Cheers
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