.TH DEROFF 1 .CT 1 writing_aids .SH NAME deroff, demonk, detex, delatex \- remove formatting requests .SH SYNOPSIS .B deroff [ .I option ... ] .I file ... .PP .B demonk [ .I option ... ] .I file ... .PP .B detex .I file .PP .B delatex .I file .SH DESCRIPTION .I Deroff reads each file in sequence and removes all .I nroff and .IR troff (1) requests and non-text arguments, backslash constructions, and constructs of preprocessors such as .I eqn, pic, and .IR tbl (1). Remaining text is written on the standard output. .I Deroff follows files included by .L .so and .L .nx commands; if a file has already been included, a .L .so for that file is ignored and a .L .nx terminates execution. If no input file is given, .I deroff reads from standard input. .PP The options are .TP .B -w Output a word list, one `word' (string of letters, digits, and properly embedded ampersands and apostrophes, beginning with a letter) per line. Other characters are skipped. Otherwise, the output follows the original, with the deletions mentioned above. .TP .B -i Ignore .L .so and .L .nx requests. .TP .BR -ms .PD0 .TP .B -mm Remove titles, attachments, etc., as well as ordinary .IR troff constructs, from .IR ms (6) or .I mm documents. .PD .TP .B -ml Same as .BR -mm , but remove lists as well. .PP .I Demonk removes all .IR monk (1) commands and then invokes .I deroff to handle both .I troff commands and preprocessor constructs. .I Demonk follows files included by .L |\^insert and .L |\^source commands as well as .I troff .L .so and .L .nx requests. If no input file is given, .I demonk reads from standard input. .PP .I Demonk recognizes the following options and passes all options except .B -b and .B -d to .I deroff . .TP .B -i Ignore .I monk .L |\^insert and .L |\^source commands as well as .I troff .L .so and .L .nx requests. .TP .B -b Do not output blank lines resulting from the removal of .I monk commands. .TP .BI -d dir Use non-standard .I monk database directory .I dir. .PP .I Detex and .I delatex do for .IR tex (1) and .IR latex (6) files what .B deroff -w does for .I troff files. .I Delatex largely subsumes .I detex. .SH "SEE ALSO" .IR troff (1), .IR monk (1), .IR tex (1), .IR spell (1), .IR wwb (1) .SH BUGS These filters are not complete interpreters of .I troff or .I tex. For example, macro definitions containing .L \e$ cause chaos in .IR deroff when the popular .L $$ delimiters for .I eqn are in effect. .br Text inside macros is emitted at place of definition, not place of call.