NAME

       demandoc - emit only text of UNIX manuals

SYNOPSIS

       demandoc [-w] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

       The demandoc utility emits only the text portions of well-formed mdoc(7) and man(7) UNIX manual files.

       By default, demandoc parses standard input and outputs only text nodes, preserving line and column
       position.  Escape sequences are omitted from the output.

       Its arguments are as follows:

       -w      Output  a  word  list.   This outputs each word of text on its own line.  A "word", in this case,
               refers to whitespace-delimited terms beginning with at least two letters and  not  consisting  of
               any escape sequences.  Words have their leading and trailing punctuation (double-quotes, sentence
               punctuation, etc.)  stripped.

       file ...
               The input files.

       If a document is not well-formed, it is skipped.

       The -i, -k, -m, and -p flags are silently discarded for calling compatibility with the historical deroff.

EXIT STATUS

       The demandoc utility exits with one of the following values:

       0       No errors occurred.
       6       An  operating  system  error  occurred, for example memory exhaustion or an error accessing input
               files.  Such errors cause demandoc to exit  at  once,  possibly  in  the  middle  of  parsing  or
               formatting a file.  The output databases are corrupt and should be removed .

EXAMPLES

       The  traditional usage of demandoc is for spell-checking manuals on BSD.  This is accomplished as follows
       (assuming British spelling):

             $ demandoc -w file.1 | spell -b

SEE ALSO

       mandoc(1), man(7), mdoc(7)

HISTORY

       demandoc replaces the historical deroff utility for handling modern man(7) and mdoc(7) documents.

AUTHORS

       The demandoc utility was written by Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>.

Debian                                         September 12, 2014                                    DEMANDOC(1)