TC2NULL(1)

💖 TC2NULL(1) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for tc2null, straight out of the General Commands Manual (section 1, the iconic one) 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

tc2null — a diagnostic tool for troffcvt output 🩺✨

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🌸 SYNTAX 🌸

tc2null [ options ] file ...  ]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so. tc2null is a postprocessor for troffcvt, and its whole little job is to test the correctness of troffcvt output 🔍 no cap. but here's the glow-up: tc2null also serves as a basis on which other troffcvt postprocessors can be built — it's literally the blueprint, the main character, the template 💅✨

most of the time you don't even run it directly, because it's usually invoked by running the troffcvt front end troff2null 🫶

and tc2null understands the following options:

• -D — Enable debugging output. 🐛 like, turn the debug brain on.
• -E — Cause tc2null to echo token information to stderr as tokens are read from troffcvt. 👀 every token, as it arrives, narrated live to stderr.
• -T title — Specify a title for the document. 📝 this one's for documents that don't contain any recognizable title, so you can just hand it one. but heads up: if the document does contain a title, it is overridden by this. sorry bestie, -T wins, no arguments 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

troffcvt(1), troff2null(1)

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👑 WHO-TO-BLAME 👑

Paul DuBois, dubois@primate.wisc.edu. 🫡 if it's broken, you know who to yell at (lovingly).

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💀 BUGS 💀

so here's the tea: tc2null uses a set of special macros that tell troffcvt how to generate tc2null-specific output that indicates null structural elements. that's the whole mechanism ✨

but these macros do not work in compatibility mode. periodt. don't come for me, that's just what the page says 🙈

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie 💖 this was TC2NULL(1) from the General Commands Manual — section 1, no date on this one, she's timeless like that 🎀 go read troffcvt(1) and troff2null(1) next, iykyk 🦋