Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:32:03 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@suscom.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Printing MAN pages Message-ID: <20050908203203.GP20229@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050908175519.GA20222@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0509081012070.3172@Treneq.frvorepbz.arg> <43206857.1010803@daleco.biz> <20050908165328.GB37407@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050908173646.GO20229@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20050908175519.GA20222@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:55:19PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:36:46PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:53:28PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > > > I am trying to figure out how to print 'man' pages. If I try a simp=
le
> > > > redirect, such as: "man foo > foo.txt" the new file is loaded with
> > > > control symbols, etc. that are not really printable. I want to save
> > > > the files if possible, and print them out at a later date. It that =
is
> > > > not possible, how would I go about printing them out in real time?
> > >=20
> > > man -t foo > foo.ps
> > >=20
> > > will generate Postscript output, which is a lot better for printing.
> >=20
> > Highly useful to know, but shouldn't we update the man page for man(1)?
> >=20
> > -t Use /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual page, =
passing
> > the output to stdout. The output from /usr/bin/groff =
-S -man
> > may need to be passed through some filter or another b=
efore
> > being printed.
> >=20
> > This does not exactly spell 'output postscript' to me...
>=20
> It does if you know that postscript is the default output format of
> groff. If one doesn't know what format groff outputs by default, it is
> easily learned by reading the groff(1) manpage.
True. I'm all in favor of a little bit more userfriendliness in man pages
as long as it's not overkill though.
How about:
-t Generate a Postscript version of the manpage, intended for
printing, by using /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual
page, passing the output to stdout. The output from
/usr/bin/groff -S -man may need to be passed through some
filter or another before being printed.
That way I can do /print in less and still get some useful hint.
I'm no good with {t,g,n}roff and written English, so no patch...
--Stijn
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