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1.1       root        1: .\"    @(#)deroff.1    6.1 (Berkeley) 4/29/85
                      2: .\"
                      3: .TH DEROFF 1 "April 29, 1985"
                      4: .AT 3
                      5: .SH NAME
                      6: deroff \- remove nroff, troff, tbl and eqn constructs
                      7: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      8: .B deroff
                      9: [
                     10: .B \-w
                     11: ]
                     12: file ...
                     13: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     14: .I Deroff
                     15: reads each file in sequence and removes all
                     16: .I nroff
                     17: and
                     18: .I troff
                     19: command lines, backslash constructions, macro definitions,
                     20: .I eqn
                     21: constructs (between `.EQ' and `.EN' lines or between delimiters),
                     22: and table descriptions and writes the remainder on the standard output.
                     23: .I Deroff
                     24: follows chains of included files (`.so' and `.nx' commands);
                     25: if a file has already been included, a `.so' is ignored and a `.nx'
                     26: terminates execution.  If no input file is given,
                     27: .I deroff
                     28: reads from the standard input file.
                     29: .PP
                     30: If the
                     31: .B \-w
                     32: flag is given, the output is a word list, one `word' (string of letters,
                     33: digits, and apostrophes, beginning with a letter; apostrophes are removed)
                     34: per line, and all other characters ignored.
                     35: Otherwise, the output follows the original, with the deletions mentioned above.
                     36: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     37: troff(1), eqn(1), tbl(1)
                     38: .SH BUGS
                     39: .I Deroff
                     40: is not a complete
                     41: .I troff
                     42: interpreter, so it can be confused by subtle constructs.
                     43: Most errors result in too much rather than too little output.

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