DEROFF(1) User's Reference Manual DEROFF(1)NAMEderoff - remove roff and preprocessor constructs
SYNOPSISderoff [-w] {file(s)}
DESCRIPTIONderoff reads in the named files (or stdin if none are given) and strips
out troff constructs and macros. The preprocessor (eqn, tbl, pic, grap,
and vgrind) sections are removed entirely. The resulting output, suit‐
able for spelling, is sent to stdout.
OPTIONS-w output a word-by-word list, delimited by newlines.
SEE ALSOtroff(1), eqn(1), pic(1), grap(1), vgrind(1).
BUGSderoff is not a full troff(1) interpreter; in particular it doesn't
know how to expand macros and how to treat m[mse]'s registers.
Macros are assumed to end with .. and are simply skipped.
deroff can be fooled with circular .nx requests. The .so request deep‐
ness is limited.
AUTHOR
David Frey <david@eos.lugs.ch>
Debian December 23, 1996 DEROFF(1)