1SGML2TXT(1)                 General Commands Manual                SGML2TXT(1)
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NAME

6       sgml2txt  -  create  plain  text output from a LinuxDoc DTD SGML source
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SYNOPSIS

10       sgml2txt  [generic-option...]   [--manpage]   [--filter]   [--blanks=n]
11       file[.sgml]
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DESCRIPTION

14       sgml2txt  is an old and obsoleted form of the text converter command of
15       LinuxDoc-Tools.  It is recommended to switch the new form  linuxdoc  -B
16       text  now.   It  converts  a  LinuxDoc  DTD  SGML source file to ASCII,
17       ISO-8859-1, or EUC-JP output. Output will appear in file.txt where file
18       is the name of the SGML source file.
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20       The attribute/value pair "output=txt" is set for conditionals.
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OPTIONS

23       sgml2txt  accepts all the generic options described in linuxdoc(1), and
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26       --manpage, -m
27              Outputs a groff source file, suitable for formatting with  groff
28              -man for man pages
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31              Remove  backspace-overstrikes  from the intermediate form gener‐
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35              The argument of the pass option is  added  to  the  command-line
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38       --blanks=n, -b
39              Set  the limit of continuous blank lines for generating the out‐
40              put document.  The default limit is 3. if 0 (zero) is specified,
41              the result have many continuous blank lines.
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43       file   The SGML source file, named either file or file.sgml
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FILES

46       Many files and executables in /usr/share/linuxdoc-tools are used.
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BUGS

49       None known.
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AUTHOR

52       Originally  written by Greg Hankins <greg.hankins@cc.gatech.edu>, based
53       on scripts by Tom Gordon and Alexander Horz,  and  later  rewritten  by
54       Cees  de  Groot <cg@cdegroot.com> for SGML-Tools (v1).  Currently main‐
55       tained by Taketoshi Sano <sano@debian.org> for Linuxdoc-Tools.
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SEE ALSO

58       linuxdoc(1), sgml2html(1),  sgml2info(1),  sgml2latex(1),  sgml2lyx(1),
59       sgml2rtf(1), sgmlcheck(1).
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63                                  16 May 2000                      SGML2TXT(1)
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