G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> […]
> Consequently, the only truly reliable way to strip a *roff document of
> all formatting is, funnily enough...to format it with *roff.

I’ve come to the same conclusion.

> As I have said before,[2] "groff -a" does what "deroff" and "unroff"
> programs do, does it better, and is very close to what users of such
> tools want anyway.

I somehow didn’t see this when you sent it two days ago, but maybe
that was for the best. I might have done most of the same things I did,
but I’d have had to pipe output through awk to fix that “<hy>” issue.

— Larry


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