Re: deroff availability

[DJ Chase]

On Wed Aug 17, 2022 at 1:27 AM EDT, Jeff Conrad wrote:
> Oops ...
>
> Scratch what I was going to suggest ...
>
> I only asked because you mentioned that roff2text(1) does a poor job of
> formatting.  Reading more carefully, formatting wasn’t your objective.

I suppose I could have been clearer there, sorry.

> I assume you’ve tried something like
>
>     roff2text <file> | tr -cs "[:alpha:]" "[\n*]"
>
> or
>
>     nroff <options> <file> | tr -cs "[:alpha:]" "[\n*]"
>
> But this obviously won’t work for diction or style.

It works for style, but it’s really a problem with diction. Diction
outputs line numbers of problematic sentences, which obviously don’t
corrispond to the source line-numbers.

Cheers,
-- 
DJ Chase
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