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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Document processing -- modern deroff(1)?
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 06:24:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On 15 Aug 2024 05:30:25 GMT, vallor wrote:

> So I'm (finally) writing a book, and using groff -mom macros for
> typesetting.  Wanted to run what I have so far through style(1) and
> diction(1), which on Linux requires one to run the input through
> deroff(1) first.
> 
> Linux doesn't seem to have deroff.

    pandoc -f man -t plain «infile» >«outfile»

works for man pages, anyway.