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Article #1871Andrew to text format -- help?
From: Nathaniel Borenstein
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 14:08
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 14:08
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(This is sort of halfway between an Andrew and an nroff question, but I think it is of interest to Andrew users in general.) I've recently had need to convert an Andrew-format document to a plain text file for people to read all over the Internet, and the results are still slightly glitchy. I've figured out 2/3 of what I did wrong, but would like advice on the last point. First of all, I chose not to use the "ezview" program to simply strip out all formatting, the way the mail system does, because I wanted to end up with pagination, numbered page headings, table of contents, etc. So instead, I did the following: ezprint -c -t $1 | nroff -Tlpr The addition of the "-Tlpr" took care of most of my problems in the first pass, such as embedded escape characters and weird page lengths. However, I am left with one undesirable oddity: several things are underlined with the ^H_ convention, which is not what I would consider plain text. Does anyone know how to tell nroff not to do this? Thanks in advance. -- Nathaniel
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