helpm2text - format a HelpMessage to be displayed
helpm2text [files]
helpm2text formats a HelpMessage to be displayed as text. HelpMessage is already a format prone to be viewed as is; helpm2text simply strips comments, deletes special list indentation and makes sure that each section starts by (at least) one blank line.
If the HelpMessage does contain a lot of POD syntax, it may be more appropriate to convert to POD by helpm2pod(1) then to text by pod2text(1). pod2text(1) offers additonal options to format the document.
The following two commands give similar results:
$ <doc.helpm helpm2text | expand -t4 | fmt -w76
$ <doc.helpm helpm2pod | pod2text
helpm2text was written by G.raud Meyer.
helpmessage(5), helpm2pod(1), pod2text(1)