Re: [Groff] Filtering out grotty terminal sequences

[Meg McRoberts]

I think the standard way is to process the file and then run
it through col -b.  For example:

       groff -mandoc -t -Tlatin1 param.man | col -b > param.1M

meg

--- Florian Cramer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I can't solve it and find no hints in the
> Web:
> 
> Is there a working way to strip grotty/groff -Tlatin1 output from the
> control characters for underline/boldface output?
> 
> The grotty manpage only talks about color codes, "striproff" from the
> yodl text preprocessor quits with the error message: 
> 
> grotty:<standard input>:10:fatal error: the first command must be `x T' 
> 
> "unroff" from troffcvt neither does the job...
> 
> -F
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