Re: [Groff] plain ascii w/o control chars

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > I have some manpages containing numerous .B, \fB and \fI
> > directives.  How do I generate plain ASCII output, WITHOUT ANY
> > CONTROL CHARACTERS OR ESCAPE SEQUENCES??
> 
> Use the -Tascii switch to nroff (or groff), and pipe the output
> through 'col -b' to turn bold and underline formatting into plain
> text.

No need for an external tool.  With old groff, try this:

   groff -Tlatin1 -P-b -P-u ...

With the current development version, do

   groff -Tlatin1 -P-c -P-b -P-u ...

(groff -Tlatin -P-cbu ... will work also).


    Werner