1DEMANDOC(1) BSD General Commands Manual DEMANDOC(1)
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4 demandoc — emit only text of UNIX manuals
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7 demandoc [-w] [file ...]
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10 The demandoc utility emits only the text portions of well-formed mdoc(7)
11 and man(7) UNIX manual files.
12 By default, demandoc parses standard input and outputs only text nodes,
14 preserving line and column position. Escape sequences are omitted from
15 the output.
16 Its arguments are as follows:
18 -w Output a word list. This outputs each word of text on its own
20 line. A "word", in this case, refers to whitespace-delimited
21 terms beginning with at least two letters and not consisting of
22 any escape sequences. Words have their leading and trailing
23 punctuation (double-quotes, sentence punctuation, etc.) stripped.
24 file ...
26 The input files.
27 If a document is not well-formed, it is skipped.
29 The -i, -k, -m, and -p flags are silently discarded for calling compati‐
31 bility with the historical deroff.
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34 The demandoc utility exits with one of the following values:
35 0 No errors occurred.
37 6 An operating system error occurred, for example memory exhaustion
38 or an error accessing input files. Such errors cause demandoc to
39 exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a
40 file. The output databases are corrupt and should be removed .
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43 The traditional usage of demandoc is for spell-checking manuals on BSD.
44 This is accomplished as follows (assuming British spelling):
45 $ demandoc -w file.1 | spell -b
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49 mandoc(1), man(7), mdoc(7)
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52 demandoc replaces the historical deroff utility for handling modern
53 man(7) and mdoc(7) documents.
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56 The demandoc utility was written by Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>.
57BSD June 20, 2019 BSD