sgml2txt1
Create plain text output from a linuxdoc dtd sgml source file
Usage
sgml2txt [generic-option ...]
[--manpage]
[--filter]
[--blanks=n]
file
[.sgml]
Overview
sgml2txt is an old and obsoleted form of the text converter command of LinuxDoc-Tools (its name may be misleading, as it is not a tool for any SGML DTD, only supports the SGML LinuxDoc DTD). 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.
Releases
19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 6 times.
--blanks since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
--filter since Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
--manpage since Debian 2.1 (Slink);
--pass since Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
-P since Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
-b since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-m since Debian 2.0 (Hamm).
--man until Debian 2.0 (Hamm);
-l until Debian 1.3 (Bo);
-man until Debian 1.3 (Bo);
-style until Debian 1.3 (Bo);
-t until Debian 1.3 (Bo).