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From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to print man pages nicely?
Message-ID: <3420@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 91 20:25:30 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.155747.12018@javelin.es.com> <1991Feb21.165558.20454@ssd.kodak.com>
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<1991Feb21.165558.20454@ssd.kodak.com> by weimer@ssd.kodak.com
& 
& In article <1991Feb21.155747.12018@javelin.es.com>,
& pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) writes:
& |> 
& |> I'm a bit baffled at how to get 'man' pages to typeset nicely on a
& postscript
& |> printer.  I've tried dinking around with troff and nroff and had very little
& |> success.  Any advice?
& 
& I just use:
& 
& man <topic> | lpr
& 
& Assuming your printer can handle the highlight control characters.

I think he wants a troff output to go to a laser printer.  Unfortunately,
most versions of troff are specific to a CAT phototypesetter.  I forget where
we got it, but there's something out there called "psroff" (and a host of
other assorted utilities) which will make things come out real nice on a
laser printer.  It does, however, require a device-independent troff;
that is, you need to have a troff that is not device-specific.  And it
requires some translational libraries in order to work right.

Anyone else?

& weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )


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