TC2TEXT(1)

💖 TC2TEXT(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the page for tc2text from the General Commands Manual (section 1, we're fancy like that ✨). Pull up a chair, grab a boba, and let's get into it 🧋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tc2text — convert troffcvt output to ASCII text 💅

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✨ SYNTAX ✨

tc2text [ options ] file ...  ]

(no cap, that trailing ] is literally just sitting there in the original. she stays. 👑)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So tc2text is a postprocessor for troffcvt, and what she does is take troffcvt output and turn it into ASCII text. That's the whole gig. It's giving "translator but for your terminal." 🔥

The way you usually meet her is not by calling her directly — normally you're just running the troffcvt front end unroff, and she gets invoked behind the scenes like a lil backstage main character. 🌈

tc2text understands the following options:

• -D — Enable debugging output. 👀 she's telling you everything.
• -E — Cause tc2text to echo token information to stderr as tokens are read from troffcvt. every token, out loud, to stderr. she's narrating. 🎙️
• -T title — Specify a title for the document. Super useful for docs that don't contain any recognizable title. But heads up: if the document does contain a title, then it gets overridden by this. so -T wins, periodt. 💥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• troffcvt(1)
• unroff(1)

go read those too, iykyk 🫶

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💀 WHO-TO-BLAME 💀

Paul DuBois, dubois@primate.wisc.edu.

(not me dropping the email exactly as-is, but fr fr if something's wrong, that's the person to bother 🙈)

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🚨 BUGS 🚨

okay so this part is important, listen up:

tc2text uses a set of special macros that tell troffcvt how to generate tc2text-specific output that indicates text structural elements.

These macros do not work in compatibility mode. ⚠️ like, at all. don't come for her, she told you.

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🌸🎀 she's a cute lil section 1 manual page from the General Commands Manual — TC2TEXT(1), no date listed, just vibes. now go convert something. slay. 💖✨🦋