NAME¶

sgml2txt - create plain text output from a SGML source file

SYNOPSIS¶

sgml2txt [generic-option...] [--man] [--filter] file[.sgml]

DESCRIPTION¶

sgml2txt converts a SGML source file to ASCII or ISO-8859-1 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 sgmltools(1), and the following specific options:

--man, -m

Outputs a groff source file, suitable for formatting with groff -man for man pages

--filter, -f

Remove backspace-overstrikes from the intermediate form generated by groff(1).

--pass, -P

The argument of the pass option is added to the command-line options handed to groff(1).

file

The SGML source file, named either file or file.sgml

FILES¶

Many files and executables in $LINUXDOCLIB and $LINUXDOCBIN are used.

BUGS¶

None known.

AUTHOR¶

Greg Hankins <greg.hankins@cc.gatech.edu>, based on scripts by Tom Gordon and Alexander Horz. Rewritten by Cees de Groot <cg@pobox.com>.

SEE ALSO¶

sgmltools(1), sgml2html(1), sgml2info(1), sgml2latex(1), sgml2lyx(1), sgml2rtf(1), sgmlcheck(1).