Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:54:16 -0600 From: "David J. Weller-Fahy" <dave-lists-freebsd-questions@weller-fahy.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to adjust man page line length Message-ID: <20110120045416.GM90952@weller-fahy.com> In-Reply-To: <20110118203958.033c4ead.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20110118034037.GF90952@weller-fahy.com> <8162039A-6C07-4C88-928C-AAB4DD0FFCFE@hiwaay.net> <20110118203958.033c4ead.freebsd@edvax.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] * Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> [2011-01-18 13:44 -0500]: > man2pdf.sh: > > #!/bin/sh > [ "$1" != "" ] && zcat `man -w $1` | \ > groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc | ps2pdf - $1.pdf > > This would cause groff to format for A4 paper width. It's fully > possible that a similar approach can be used for requesting a specific > terminal width given in characters, rather than inches or centimeters > (from a predefined value). I forgot to mention in the [SOLVED] email - thank you for mentioning the groff command-line, as it helped in both the initial and final solutions. Regards, -- dave [ please don't CC me ] [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk03v/gACgkQzahokXOb2UxFyACgzRvA6Z6Ebu/ayCVXFMeHp56I LXcAn1lATR7oFsOEZei6cQHSJJHMFOGS =+QiE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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