Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!agate!adrianho From: adrianho@barkley.watt.berkeley.edu (Adrian J Ho) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How to print man pages nicely? Message-ID: Date: 7 Mar 91 07:26:05 GMT References: <1991Feb21.155747.12018@javelin.es.com> <1991Feb21.165558.20454@ssd.kodak.com> <3420@unisoft.UUCP> <1991Mar06.221505.19743@convex.com> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM's message of 6 Mar 91 22:15:05 GMT In article <1991Mar06.221505.19743@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: >The hard part is you need "ditroff". After that, you can use any of >several conversion utils to go from device independent troff to >postscript. I tried psroff, but after it kept dumping core, I switched to >tpscript and have been happy ever since. Overkill, perhaps, but you can get groff from prep.ai.mit.edu (18.71.0.38). It's an enhancement of standard troff, has rewrites of various tmac files (including man) and it's FREE. There's a catch, though -- you need a C++ compiler, but you can get g++ from the same site. G++ needs gcc, though, so you'll have to get that too. Overkill? I'll let you decide, but I compiled all three and it wasn't really tedious, either. >--tom >-- I get so tired of utilities with arbitrary, undocumented, compiled-in limits. Don't you? >Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Ho, EECS (pronounced "eeks!") Dept. Phone: (415) 642-5563 UC Berkeley adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu Domain: sesame-street (telly,bigbird,snuffy,oscar,kermit,bert,grover,barkley) Favorite expression: "There's no business like monkey business."