NAME
sgml2txt - create plain text output from a LinuxDoc DTD SGML source file
SYNOPSIS
sgml2txt [generic-option...] [--manpage] [--filter] [--blanks=n]
R file [.sgml]
DESCRIPTION
sgml2txt
is an old and obsoleted form of the text converter command
of LinuxDoc-Tools. It is recommended to switch the new form
linuxdoc -B text
now.
It converts a LinuxDoc DTD SGML source file to ASCII, ISO-8859-1, or EUC-JP
output. Output will appear in
file.txt
where
file
is the name of the SGML source file.
The attribute/value pair "output=txt" is set for conditionals.
OPTIONS
sgml2txt accepts all the generic options described in
linuxdoc(1),
and the following specific options:
"--manpage,
Outputs a groff source file, suitable for formatting with
groff -man
for man pages
"--filter,
Remove backspace-overstrikes from the intermediate form generated by
groff(1).
"--pass,
The argument of the pass option is added to the command-line options
handed to
groff(1).
"--blanks=n,
Set the limit of continuous blank lines for generating the output
document. The default limit is 3. if 0 (zero) is specified,
the result have many continuous blank lines.
file
The SGML source file, named either
file
or
file.sgml
FILES
Many files and executables in /usr/share/linuxdoc-tools are used.
BUGS
None known.
AUTHOR
Originally written by Greg Hankins <greg.hankins@cc.gatech.edu>,
based on scripts by Tom Gordon and Alexander Horz, and later
rewritten by Cees de Groot <cg@cdegroot.com> for SGML-Tools (v1).
Currently maintained by Taketoshi Sano <sano@debian.org> for Linuxdoc-Tools.
SEE ALSO
