Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 11:48:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Norbert Meissner <norbert.meissner@daimlerchrysler.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Printing Manpages Message-ID: <19990505114821.Y40359@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <A991441F7BF5D111B2BB0008C7A410113D071C@sutgxs05.str.daimlerchrysler.com>; from Meissner, Norbert on Tue, May 04, 1999 at 12:28:41PM %2B0200 References: <A991441F7BF5D111B2BB0008C7A410113D071C@sutgxs05.str.daimlerchrysler.com>
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On Tuesday, 4 May 1999 at 12:28:41 +0200, Meissner, Norbert wrote: >>> [snip] >>> the correct solution is (if a2ps is installed) >>> >>> man topic | a2ps -2 -m | lpr -P myprinter >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>> I've done this many times and it works! >> >> You're not listening: >> >>>> The problem with this solution is that it's not troff, it's nroff, and >>>> it *still* needs PostScript. >> >> If you have some comment on what I said, I'd welcome it. > > [Meissner, Norbert] > Maybe I'm wrong, but as I understand the question is to print a > manpage in two columns in landscape orientation. You don't understand the question. He wanted to print it with troff, which uses proportional fonts and generates PostScript output. > So my solution takes the ascii output of man, converts it to ps in > two columns and takes advantage of 66 lines per page. Exactly. It won't work with PostScript output. > I agree with you that nroff format the pages but what's the > problem with it. Some people prefer the typeset output > Crist does his first attempt with troff (aka groff) but in my > opinion there's no need for it. You're welcome to your opinion, but Crist has a different one. > a2ps does a very good job in "pretty-printing" manpages. In this, I think I'd be more inclined to agree with Crist. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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