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Article #5138Re: nroff question
From: Michael Palmquist
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1988 21:23
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1988 21:23
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In article <13838@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu writes: > Is there a way of making nroff ignore its default bold and italic settings? > > I would like to save my nroff'd man pages without the extra junk that cannot > be displayed in my terminals. Can I make nroff forget about bold and > italics? Have you tried piping your nroff'ed document to col -b? If you do, it basically strips out the bullshit you get with double and triple hammmering of characters that nroff does with bold and italic. nroff -mm yourfile.m | col -b > newfile.x newfile.x doesn't have the extra stuff. mpp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy!ames!amdahl!bungia!datapg!ems!mpp From: mpp@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Michael Palmquist) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: nroff question Message-ID: <6659@ems.Ems.MN.ORG> Date: 9 Sep 88 21:23:17 GMT References: <13838@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: EMS/McGraw-Hill, Eden Prairie, MN Lines: 16