In response to my question about plain text from man, H. K. advised, " give ps2ascii or pstotext a try". ps2ascii works. Thanks H.K. The {n,t}roffs appear quite powerful. I wonder whether there is a way to pass an argument through man to {g,n,t?}roff telling it to produce plain text for display by a proportional font? Specifying the line width would be a nice detail. Thanks, Peter E. Peter Easthope http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/