NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       sgml2txt [generic-option...] [--manpage] [--filter] [--blanks=n] file[.sgml]

DESCRIPTION

       sgml2txt is an old and obsoleted form of the text converter command of LinuxDoc-Tools.  It is recommended
       to switch the new form 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 file.txt where file is the name of the SGML source
       file.

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

OPTIONS

       sgml2txt accepts all the generic options described in linuxdoc(1), and the following specific options:

       --manpage, -m
              Outputs a groff source file, suitable for formatting with groff -man for man pages

       --filter, -f
              Remove backspace-overstrikes from the intermediate form generated by groff(1).

       --pass, -P
              The argument of the pass option is added to the command-line options handed to groff(1).

       --blanks=n, -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.

       file   The SGML source file, named either file or file.sgml

FILES

       Many files and executables in /usr/share/linuxdoc-tools are used.

BUGS

       None known.

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.

SEE ALSO

       linuxdoc(1), sgml2html(1), sgml2info(1), sgml2latex(1), sgml2lyx(1), sgml2rtf(1), sgmlcheck(1).

                                                   16 May 2000                                       SGML2TXT(1)