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)