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DEROFF(1) General Commands Manual DEROFF(1) NAME deroff - remove nroff, troff, tbl and eqn constructs SYNOPSIS deroff [ -w ] file ... DESCRIPTION Deroff reads each file in sequence and removes all nroff and troff com- mand lines, backslash constructions, macro definitions, eqn constructs (between `.EQ' and `.EN' lines or between delimiters), and table de- scriptions and writes the remainder on the standard output. Deroff follows chains of included files (`.so' and `.nx' commands); if a file has already been included, a `.so' is ignored and a `.nx' terminates execution. If no input file is given, deroff reads from the standard input file. If the -w flag is given, the output is a word list, one `word' (string of letters, digits, and apostrophes, beginning with a letter; apostro- phes are removed) per line, and all other characters ignored. Other- wise, the output follows the original, with the deletions mentioned above. SEE ALSO troff(1), eqn(1), tbl(1) BUGS Deroff is not a complete troff interpreter, so it can be confused by subtle constructs. Most errors result in too much rather than too lit- tle output. DEROFF(1)