jens-maus/yam

#! /bin/sh
# Convert manual page troff stdin to formatted .txt stdout.

# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.

# Tell groff not to emit SGR escape sequences (ANSI color escapes).
GROFF_NO_SGR=1
export GROFF_NO_SGR

echo ".am TH
.hy 0
.na
..
.rm }H
.rm }F" | nroff -man - ${1+"$@"} | perl -ne '
    binmode STDIN, '\'':encoding(utf8)'\'';
    binmode STDOUT, '\'':encoding(utf8)'\'';
    chomp;
    s/.\010//g;
    s/\s*$//;
    if (/^$/) {
        $sawblank = 1;
        next;
    } else {
        if ($sawblank && $didprint) {
            print "\n";
            $sawblank = 0;
        }
        print "$_\n";
        $didprint = 1;
    }
'