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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: nroff
Keywords: nroff, help
Message-ID: <492@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 90 02:31:07 GMT
References: <14@astph.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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In article <14@astph.UUCP> joe@astph.UUCP (Joe Broniszewski) writes:
<From time to time I get sources from the net and compile them on
<my machine.  Many times these sources send documemtation in
<a form that nroff can understand.  I try to print out these
<documents with the switchs -man, -ms, etc. that came with
<nroff, but they don't work on all documents.  I don't understand
<nroff well enough to figure out a solution to this problem.  Is
<there a standard filter to pass some of these manual pages through?
<Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

Many documents do not translate well under nroff.  They really want to
be printed like books, using troff (or a form there-of).  Using troff
will allow for typeset quality documents.
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