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64.Dd $Mdocdate: October 28 2010 $
65.Dt DEROFF 1
66.Os
67.Sh NAME
68.Nm deroff
69.Nd remove nroff/troff, eqn, pic and tbl constructs
70.Sh SYNOPSIS
71.Nm deroff
72.Op Fl ikpw
73.Oo
74.Fl m
75.Ar a | e | l | m | s
76.Oc
77.Op Ar
78.Sh DESCRIPTION
79.Nm deroff
80reads each file in sequence and removes all roff
81command lines, backslash constructions, macro definitions,
82eqn constructs (between
83.Dq .EQ
84and
85.Dq .EN
86lines or between delimiters),
87pic pictures,
88and table descriptions and writes the remainder to the standard output.
89.Nm
90follows chains of included files
91.Po
92.Dq .so
93and
94.Dq .nx
95commands
96.Pc ;
97if a file has already been included, a
98.Dq .so
99is ignored and a
100.Dq .nx
101terminates execution.
102If no input file is given,
103.Nm
104reads from the standard input.
105.Pp
106The options are as follows:
107.Bl -tag -width Ds
108.It Fl i
109Ignore
110.Dq .so
111and
112.Dq .nx
113commands.
114.It Fl k
115Keep blocks of text intact.
116This is the default behavior unless the
117.Fl m
118option is given.
119.It Fl m
120Enable support for common macro packages.
121The
122.Fl m
123option takes the following arguments:
124.Pp
125.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
126.It a
127recognize
128.Xr man 7
129macros.
130.It e
131recognize me macros.
132.It l
133remove list constructs.
134.It m
135recognize mm macros.
136.It s
137recognize ms macros.
138.El
139.It Fl p
140Preserve paragraph macros.
141This option only has an effect if the
142.Fl m
143option is also specified.
144.It Fl w
145Output a word list, one
146.Sq word
147(string of letters, digits, and apostrophes, beginning with a letter;
148apostrophes are removed) per line, and all other characters ignored.
149Normally, the output follows the original, with the deletions mentioned above.
150.El
151.Sh SEE ALSO
152.Xr man 7
153.Sh HISTORY
154.Nm
155appeared in
156.At v7 .
157.Sh BUGS
158.Nm
159is not a complete troff interpreter,
160so it can be confused by subtle constructs.
161Most errors result in too much rather than too little output.
162.Pp
163The
164.Fl ml
165option does not correctly handle nested lists.
166