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.TH SGML2TXT 1 "16 May 2000"

.SH NAME

sgml2txt \- create plain text output from a LinuxDoc DTD SGML source file 

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B sgml2txt [generic-option...] [--manpage] [--filter] [--blanks=\fIn\fB]

.IR file [.sgml]

.SH DESCRIPTION

.B sgml2txt

is an old and obsoleted form of the text converter command

of LinuxDoc-Tools.  It is recommended to switch the new form

.B 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

.I file.txt

where 

.I file

is the name of the SGML source file.

.LP

The attribute/value pair "output=txt" is set for conditionals.

.SH OPTIONS

.B sgml2txt accepts all the generic options described in 

.BR linuxdoc (1), 

and the following specific options:

.IP "--manpage, -m"

Outputs a groff source file, suitable for formatting with 

.B groff -man

for man pages

.IP "--filter, -f"

Remove backspace-overstrikes from the intermediate form generated by

\fBgroff\fR(1).

.IP "--pass, -P"

The argument of the pass option is added to the command-line options

handed to 

.BR groff (1).

.IP "--blanks=\fIn\fR, -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.

.IP file

The SGML source file, named either 

.I file

or 

.I file.sgml

.SH FILES

Many files and executables in $LINUXDOCLIB are used. 

.SH BUGS

None known.

.SH 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.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR linuxdoc (1),

.BR sgml2html (1),

.BR sgml2info (1),

.BR sgml2latex (1), 

.BR sgml2lyx (1), 

.BR sgml2rtf (1),

.BR sgmlcheck (1).