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Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/COHERENT/deroff, revision 1.1.1.1

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                      3: deroff                       Command                       deroff
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                      8: Remove text formatting control information
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                     10: ddeerrooffff [-ww] [-xx] [_f_i_l_e ...]
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                     12: deroff removes text  formatting control information from each in-
                     13: put  text  file,  or  from  the  standard input  if  no  file  is
                     14: specified.  It  regards all lines  that begin with `.'  or `'' as
                     15: being nroff  commands and  deletes them.  deroff  also recognizes
                     16: some additional control  lines.  It deletes eqn information (bet-
                     17: ween .EQ  and .EN  lines), tbl  information (between .TS  and .TE
                     18: lines), and macro definitions.  It also deletes embedded .eqn re-
                     19: quests.  It  expands source file  inclusion with .so  and .nx re-
                     20: quests, with  the proviso that  no input file is  read twice.  It
                     21: also deletes some troff  escape sequences, such as those for font
                     22: and size change.
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                     24: When  the  -x  flag  is  present,  deroff  uses  some  additional
                     25: knowledge about the nroff -ms macro package.
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                     27: When the  -w flag is  present, deroff divides  the remaining text
                     28: into words and prints them  to the standard output, one per line.
                     29: A word  comprises a sequence of  letters, digits, and apostrophes
                     30: which commences  with a  letter.  deroff strips  apostrophes from
                     31: the output.  All  other characters between words are not printed.
                     32: The spelling checking programs spell and typo use this option.
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                     34: ***** See Also *****
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                     36: nroff, spell, typo
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