On Wed Aug 17, 2022 at 1:27 AM EDT, Jeff Conrad wrote: > Oops ... > > Scratch what I was going to suggest ... > > I only asked because you mentioned that roff2text(1) does a poor job of > formatting. Reading more carefully, formatting wasn’t your objective.
I suppose I could have been clearer there, sorry. > I assume you’ve tried something like > > roff2text <file> | tr -cs "[:alpha:]" "[\n*]" > > or > > nroff <options> <file> | tr -cs "[:alpha:]" "[\n*]" > > But this obviously won’t work for diction or style. It works for style, but it’s really a problem with diction. Diction outputs line numbers of problematic sentences, which obviously don’t corrispond to the source line-numbers. Cheers, -- DJ Chase They, Them, Theirs
