demandoc.1

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  17 .Dd $Mdocdate: September 1 2011 $
  18 .Dt DEMANDOC 1
  19 .Os
  20 .Sh NAME
  21 .Nm demandoc
  22 .Nd emit only text of UNIX manuals
  23 .Sh SYNOPSIS
  24 .Nm demandoc
  25 .Op Fl w
  26 .Op Ar
  27 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  28 The
  29 .Nm
  30 utility emits only the text portions of well-formed
  31 .Xr mdoc 7
  32 and
  33 .Xr man 7
  34 .Ux
  35 manual files.
  36 Its arguments are as follows:
  37 .Bl -tag -width Ds
  38 .It Fl w
  39 Output a word list.
  40 This outputs each word of text on its own line.
  41 A
  42 .Qq word ,
  43 in this case, refers to whitespace-delimited terms beginning with at
  44 least two letters after opening punctuation and not consisting of any
  45 escape sequences.
  46 .It Ar
  47 The input files.
  48 .El
  49 .Pp
  50 If
  51 .Ar file
  52 is not provided,
  53 .Nm
  54 accepts standard input.
  55 If a document is not well-formed, it is skipped.
  56 .Pp
  57 By default,
  58 .Nm
  59 parses its input and outputs only text nodes, preserving line column
  60 position.
  61 Escape sequences are omitted from the output.
  62 .Pp
  63 The
  64 .Fl i ,
  65 .Fl k ,
  66 .Fl m ,
  67 and
  68 .Fl p
  69 flags are silently discarded for calling compatibility with the
  70 historical deroff.
  71 .Sh EXIT STATUS
  72 The
  73 .Nm
  74 utility exits with one of the following values:
  75 .Pp
  76 .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
  77 .It 0
  78 No errors occurred.
  79 .It 6
  80 An operating system error occurred, for example memory exhaustion or an
  81 error accessing input files.
  82 Such errors cause
  83 .Nm
  84 to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a file.
  85 The output databases are corrupt and should be removed .
  86 .El
  87 .Sh SEE ALSO
  88 .Xr mandoc 1 ,
  89 .Xr man 7
  90 .Xr mdoc 7
  91 .Sh HISTORY
  92 .Nm
  93 replaces the historical deroff utility for handling modern
  94 .Xr man 7
  95 and
  96 .Xr mdoc 7
  97 documents.
  98 .Sh AUTHORS
  99 The
 100 .Nm
 101 utility was written by
 102 .An Kristaps Dzonsons ,
 103 .Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .