plan9 man page for deroff

DEROFF(1)						      General Commands Manual							 DEROFF(1)

NAME
       deroff, delatex - remove formatting requests

SYNOPSIS
       deroff [ option ...  ] file ...

       delatex file

DESCRIPTION
       Deroff  reads  each  file in sequence and removes all nroff and troff(1) requests and non-text arguments, backslash constructions, and con-
       structs of preprocessors such as eqn(1), pic(1), and tbl(1).  Remaining text is written on  the	standard  output.   Deroff  follows  files
       included  by and commands; if a file has already been included, a for that file is ignored and a terminates execution.  If no input file is
       given, deroff reads from standard input.

       The options are

       -w     Output a word list, one `word' (string of letters, digits, and properly embedded ampersands and apostrophes, beginning with  a  let-
	      ter) per line.  Other characters are skipped.  Otherwise, the output follows the original, with the deletions mentioned above.

       -i     Ignore and requests.

       -ms

       -mm    Remove titles, attachments, etc., as well as ordinary troff constructs, from ms(6) or mm documents.

       -ml    Same as -mm, but remove lists as well.

       Delatex does for tex and latex (see tex(1)) files what deroff -wi does for troff files.

SOURCE
       /sys/src/cmd/deroff.c

SEE ALSO
       troff(1), tex(1), spell(1)

BUGS
       These filters are not complete interpreters of troff or tex.  For example, macro definitions containing cause chaos in deroff when the pop-
       ular delimiters for eqn are in effect.
       Text inside macros is emitted at place of definition, not place of call.

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