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[ewx]

# this is kind of painful using only BREs
nroff -man "$1" | sed 's/&/\&/g;
                       s/</\&lt;/g;
                       s/>/\&gt;/g;
                       s/@/\&#64;/g;
                       s!\(.\)^H\1!<b>\1</b>!g;
                       s!\(&[#0-9a-z][0-9a-z]*;\)^H\1!<b>\1</b>!g;
                       s!_^H\(.\)!<i>\1</i>!g;
                       s!_^H\(&[#0-9a-z][0-9a-z]*;\)!<i>\1</i>!g;
                       s!</\([bi]\)><\1>!!g'

(^H means a single character 8, not the two characters ^ and H.)

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Turns formatted man pages, which use overprinting to implement bold and underlining, into a fragment of HTML.