deroff(1)                                                            deroff(1)



NAME
     deroff - remove nroff, troff, tbl and eqn constructs

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/ucb/deroff [ -w ] filename ...

DESCRIPTION
     The deroff command reads each file in sequence and removes all nroff and
     troff command lines, backslash constructions, macro definitions, eqn
     constructs (between .EQ and .EN lines or between delimiters), and table
     descriptions 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.

OPTIONS
     -w   Generate a word list, one word per line. A `word' is a string of
          letters, digits, and apostrophes, beginning with a letter;
          apostrophes are removed.  All other characters are ignored.

SEE ALSO
     eqn(1), nroff(1), tbl(1), troff(1)

NOTES
     deroff is not a complete troff interpreter, so it can be confused by
     subtle constructs.  Most errors result in too much rather than too little
     output.

     deroff does not work well with files that use .so to source in the
     standard macro package files.

























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