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From: mpp@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Michael Palmquist)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: nroff question
Message-ID: <6659@ems.Ems.MN.ORG>
Date: 9 Sep 88 21:23:17 GMT
References: <13838@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: EMS/McGraw-Hill, Eden Prairie, MN
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In article <13838@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
> Is there a way of making nroff ignore its default bold and italic settings?
> 
> I would like to save my nroff'd man pages without the extra junk that cannot
> be displayed in my terminals.  Can I make nroff forget about bold and
> italics?

Have you tried piping your nroff'ed document to col -b? If you do,
it basically strips out the bullshit you get with double and triple hammmering
of characters that nroff does with bold and italic.

	nroff -mm yourfile.m | col -b > newfile.x

newfile.x doesn't have the extra stuff. 

mpp