From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Mar 18 14:38:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10834 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:38:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10789 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 14:38:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA11207; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:07:57 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA22945; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:07:47 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980319090746.29812@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:07:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Studded , laskavy@gambit.msk.su Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Add to FAQ? How to produce an ASCII man page? References: <199803181630.TAA25999@Peru.gambit.msk.su> <351026B9.B86BD0F5@dal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <351026B9.B86BD0F5@dal.net>; from Studded on Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 11:55:38AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 18 March 1998 at 11:55:38 -0800, Studded wrote: > laskavy@gambit.msk.su wrote: >> >> Dear documentation project members! >> >> I think >> >> man TOPIC | col -b > TOPIC.man.ascii >> >> is a FAQ > > As Annelise alluded to it's in her excellent new users tutorial on > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/newuser/newuser.html. If you mean that > you'd like to see this question in the FAQ itself, we hope to be > restructuring the FAQ/Handbook/Tutorial system so that the information > you need is easier to find. We will definitely take your suggestion into > consideration when making those plans. :) Just out of interest, who are "we"? Why is laskavy excluded? I see (and welcome) movement afoot to restructure the handbook, but I didn't realise that posts had been appointed. Anyway, you might also consider the following way to format a man page in PostScript, for example ls(1): $ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -mandoc > ls.1.ps or $ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -mandoc | lpr Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message