Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 11:57:52 +0200 From: "Meissner, Norbert" <norbert.meissner@daimlerchrysler.com> To: "'Greg Lehey'" <grog@lemis.com>, "Meissner, Norbert" <norbert.meissner@daimlerchrysler.com> Cc: cjclark <cjclark@home.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: AW: Printing Manpages Message-ID: <A991441F7BF5D111B2BB0008C7A410113D071B@sutgxs05.str.daimlerchrysler.com>
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hi folks,
the correct solution is (if a2ps is installed)
man topic | a2ps -2 -m | lpr -P myprinter
for the options -2 -m read this cutout of the a2ps manpage:
-m Understand UNIX manual output ie: 66 lines per page,
no line numbering and possible bolding and underlin-
ing sequences. The understanding of bolding and
underlining is there by default even if -m is not
specified.=20
-2 Print two pages per physical page (twinpage mode), =20
side by side or up-down, depending on the printing =20
mode (landscape or portrait). =20
I've done this many times and it works!
Norbert
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> -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Greg Lehey [SMTP:grog@lemis.com]
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 4. Mai 1999 09:22
> An: Norbert Meissner
> Cc: cjclark; freebsd-questions
> Betreff: Re: Printing Manpages
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> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
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> On Tuesday, 4 May 1999 at 8:55:14 +0200, Meissner, Norbert wrote:
> >> On Dienstag, 4. Mai 1999 06:23, Crist J. Clark
> <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I want to print out some long manpages. I know how to convert a
> >> manpage to Postscript and print it quite easily,
> >>
> >>> man -t topic | lpr
> >>
> >> Where 'topic' is the page of choice.
> >>
> >> However, I'd like to print two columns on a page (two manpage =
pages
> >> per page of paper). I know of a kind of ugly work around,
> >>
> >>> gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/topic.1.gz | groff -man -Tascii |
> enscript -2r
> >>
> >> But that is an ugly command line and the output is not too pretty
> >> either (it works, but unless enscript gets some tweaking, page =
breaks
> >> and other things are off).
> >>
> >> Anyone have a better way to convert manpages to a pretty two =
column
> >> per page form? Perhaps piping through gs somehow (the word =
'column' is
> >> not even on 'man gs' so I don't know where to start there)? Or =
maybe
> >> enscript is the right tool with some different options?
> >
> > have a look at a2ps (a4 or letter size, what you prefer) at the =
ports.
> it
> > just does what you want, especially for man pages. if you haven't =
any
> > ps-printer you should also have a look at ghostscript.
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> The problem with this solution is that it's not troff, it's nroff, =
and
> it *still* needs PostScript.
>=20
> The correct solution (some assembly required) is to massage the
> PostScript to print left and right. I do something similar for =
proofs
> of "The Complete FreeBSD", where I print four thumbnails on a page,
> but it would take a lot of work to change that to two per page, which
> is why I didn't answer before.
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> Greg
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