NAME
sgml2txt - create plain text output from a LinuxDoc DTD SGML source
file
SYNOPSIS
sgml2txt [generic-option...] [--manpage] [--filter] [--blanks=n]
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, -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).
--blanks=n, -b
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
linuxdoc(1), sgml2html(1), sgml2info(1), sgml2latex(1), sgml2lyx(1),
sgml2rtf(1), sgmlcheck(1).
16 May 2000