deroff(1)                                                          User Commands                                                         deroff(1)

NAME

       deroff - remove nroff/troff, tbl, and eqn constructs

SYNOPSIS

       deroff [ -m [m | s | l] ] [-w] [-i] [ filename...]

DESCRIPTION

       deroff  reads  each  of  the  filenames in sequence and removes all troff(1) requests, macro calls, backslash constructs, eqn(1) constructs
       (between .EQ and .EN  lines, and between delimiters), and tbl(1) descriptions, perhaps replacing them with white space  (blanks  and  blank
       lines),  and writes the remainder of the file on the standard output. deroff follows chains of included files (.so and .nx troff commands);
       if a file has already been included, a .so naming that file is ignored and a .nx naming that file terminates execution. If no input file is
       given, deroff reads the standard input.

OPTIONS

       -m       The  -m  option  may be followed by an m, s, or l. The -mm option causes the macros to be interpreted so that only running text is
                output (that is, no text from macro lines.)  The -ml option forces the -mm option and also causes  deletion  of  lists  associated
                with the mm macros.

       -w       If  the  -w  option  is given, the output is a word list, one ``word'' per line, with all other characters deleted. Otherwise, the
                output follows the original, with the deletions mentioned above. In text, a ``word'' is any string that contains at least two let-
                ters  and  is  composed  of letters, digits, ampersands (&), and apostrophes ('); in a macro call, however, a ``word'' is a string
                that begins with at least two letters and contains a total of at least three letters. Delimiters are  any  characters  other  than
                letters, digits, apostrophes, and ampersands. Trailing apostrophes and ampersands are removed from ``words.''

       -i       The  -i option causes  deroff to ignore  .so and  .nx commands.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWdoc                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       eqn(1), nroff(1), tbl(1), troff(1), attributes(5)

NOTES

       deroff is not a complete troff interpreter, so it can be confused by subtle constructs. Most such errors result in too much rather than too
       little output.

       The -ml option does not handle nested lists correctly.

SunOS 5.10                                                          14 Sep 1992                                                          deroff(1)