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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to print man pages nicely?
Message-ID: <1991Mar07.192741.11245@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 7 Mar 91 19:27:41 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.165558.20454@ssd.kodak.com> <3420@unisoft.UUCP> <1991Mar06.221505.19743@convex.com>
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In article <1991Mar06.221505.19743@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>From the keyboard of greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf):
>: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.  

>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.

Chris Lewis's psroff will work with "old" troff and will generate postscript
or HP output (perhaps others, I've only done postscript) from the CAT codes.

There's no pic/grap but it is great for making nice looking man pages. 

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us