Re: [ILUG] Quick One- Printing Man Pages

From: Robert Sweetnam (sweetr at domain indigo.ie)
Date: Wed 20 Oct 1999 - 15:25:13 IST

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Thanks to all who replied.
I've finally settled on the following.

$ man -t ls |lpr

the -t gives me some nice formating and is postscript too so just what I was
looking for.

Cheers
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Hilliard <nick at domain iol.ie>
To: ilug at domain linux.ie <ilug at domain linux.ie>
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Quick One- Printing Man Pages

>> Not sure that this is what you want - but I use
>>
>> $ man ls |col -b > man.file
>>
>> then just print man.file (in this case the ls man page)
>> You do loose the formatting (bold & underline) from the page
>
>Surely much better to go to the original roff source and do something like:
>
>% groff -Tps -mandoc /usr/share/man/man3/blah.3 |lpr
>
>no?
>
>Nick
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