Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 08:55:14 +0200 From: "Meissner, Norbert" <norbert.meissner@daimlerchrysler.com> To: "'cjclark'" <cjclark@home.com>, " (FreeBSD Questions)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: AW: Printing Manpages Message-ID: <A991441F7BF5D111B2BB0008C7A410113D071A@sutgxs05.str.daimlerchrysler.com>
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hi crist, have a look at a2ps (a4 or letter size, what you prefer) at the ports. = it just does what you want, especially for man pages. if you haven't any ps-printer you should also have a look at ghostscript. Norbert > -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Crist J. Clark [SMTP:cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com] > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 4. Mai 1999 06:23 > An: (FreeBSD Questions) > Betreff: Printing Manpages >=20 > I want to print out some long manpages. I know how to convert a > manpage to Postscript and print it quite easily, >=20 > % man -t topic | lpr >=20 > Where 'topic' is the page of choice.=20 >=20 > However, I'd like to print two columns on a page (two manpage pages > per page of paper). I know of a kind of ugly work around, >=20 > % gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/topic.1.gz | groff -man -Tascii | = enscript > -2r >=20 > But that is an ugly command line and the output is not too pretty > either (it works, but unless enscript gets some tweaking, page breaks > and other things are off). >=20 > Anyone have a better way to convert manpages to a pretty two column > per page form? Perhaps piping through gs somehow (the word 'column' = is > not even on 'man gs' so I don't know where to start there)? Or maybe > enscript is the right tool with some different options? >=20 > Thanks for any help. > --=20 > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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