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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
              letter) 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 con‐
              structs, 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 exam‐
       ple,  macro definitions containing cause chaos in deroff when the popu‐
       lar delimiters for eqn are in effect.
       Text inside macros is emitted at place  of  definition,  not  place  of
       call.



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