Re: suppressing special output from troff -Tascii
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Is there a way to get troff to not do these formatting steps? As an > alternative how can I get sed or some other text manipulator to take > the three character sequence into > simply ? > perl -pie "s/X\cHX/X/g" will replace X followed by C-H followed by X with X. Better you try it on a copy first. I don't trust myself that much :-) Maybe you want the enhanced version perl -pie "s/(\w)\cH\1/$1/g" Will change "a word character followed by C-H followed by the privious word" to the word character found. A^HA will be changed to A. A^HB won't be changed. A word character is defined as [a-zA-Z_0-9] Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: suppressing special output from troff -Tascii
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > I am trying to transfer some troff files to straight ascii, but I keep > getting intermixed control characters and extra characters in its attempt > to deal with bold, underscore, and other format issues. > Is there a way to get troff to not do these formatting steps? As an > alternative how can I get sed or some other text manipulator to take > the three character sequence into > simply ? As far as I can tell, the following will do it. sed -e 's/.'$'\b''//g' < troff-file > ascii-file where troff-file is your troff-formatted file, and ascii-file is where you want to put the plain ascii output. The ugly $'\b' in the middle is a way to tell bash you want a backspace character passed. If you don't use bash, you'll have to take a peek at your shell's manual. I tried it with a few manpages, looks good. - -- Benoit Goudreault-Emond Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key fingerprint: 11 43 A9 04 7C 11 41 44 5F FC 69 B1 B6 0A ED 78 E-mail me to receive the actual public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBNHoE8Vqhoy6gYXzFAQGcNQP+PMu/awUzaL7DQcfyBsd1vMI3W4mrSyxP armNSzFXo7+ylralxZY8vUQZ4jc6322Ic3GzAuBKdP8HefzLPA1JQyHYBhI2Owl0 wThOjBNabONdJvnJqCJG5lVpG+kuUtBgoMm9+qTaXFQEXxocdTZH2XuUXHithR7g uwFnxYNNva0= =Sf7M -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: suppressing special output from troff -Tascii
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > Run "col". > Thanks! That was exactly what I needed! Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: suppressing special output from troff -Tascii
Run "col". Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
