Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 20:46:42 +0000 From: James Raynard <fdocs@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook in HTML and Dos format Message-ID: <19971127204642.46572@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971126141206.6854B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>; from Annelise Anderson on Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 02:19:54PM -0800 References: <347B8323.DDA0C7FA@hkstar.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971126141206.6854B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 02:19:54PM -0800, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Tom Leung wrote: > > > I also downloaded the Handbook in Dos format. However, there are some > > special characters inside. I guess that they are the formatting > > characters in the original document that supposed to be bold or > > underline. How can I properly format the document such that I can view > > or print the document properly? > > If you have Microsoft Word or WordPerfect, you can use them to delete > the ^H (backspace) characters that create boldface when the document > is called to the screen under certain unix utilities (e.g., "more" and > "less"). The simplest way to fix this is to run the ascii/latin1 output through a couple of filters: col -b < handbook.ascii | sed 's/$//' > FAQ.ascii.msdos This could be run before putting the files on the FTP site, or even added to the Makefile. (The 'col -b' gets rid of the backspaces and the sed expression puts a carriage return character at the end of each line so the lines break properly under DOS. Note that ^M signifies a CR character, NOT a caret followed by a capital M). -- In theory, theory is better than practice. In practice, it isn't. James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland. http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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