> Sent: 10 September, 2026 8:20 PM > Subject: Re: deprecating deroff & unroff (was: More UTP utility wibbles)
Larry Kollar wrote: > 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. What about groff -Tascii -P-cbu, giving a formatted ASCII file? You lose some non-ASCII characters, but overall, it’s often less of a mess. Most folks who got this from me were a lot happier with the results than they were with ASCII saves of WordPerfect files by others... Jeff Conrad
