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From: bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: formatting program for manual entries
Message-ID: <1110002@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Apr 88 18:44:00 GMT
References: <228@cmtl01.UUCP>
Organization: HP SEMC, Cupertino, CA
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Mario Dorion (mdorion@cmtl01.UUCP) writes:
> I've been downloading a few 'goodies' from comp.source.unix and most of them
> come with a manual entry ('goodie'.1 or something similar). ...
> My probem is: I'm still to find a formatting utilities that would print these
> files the proper way! I tried nroff, mm, osdd ... there's always something
> wrong with the output.

Did you type `nroff -man goodie.1'?  The "-man" part means "go read
the macros for manual pages".  If it looks good with

	nroff -man goodie.1 | more

then it will probably look good on your line printer, too:

	nroff -man goodie.1 | lp

(Use `lpr' instead of `lp' if you're running a Berkeley-based system.)

If it looks horrible on your line printer, you may need to use a "-T"
option to nroff, as in

	nroff -Tlp -man goodie.1 | lp

The "lp" part might need to be something else, like "-T37" or
something like that.  Ask your favorite system administrator, or
someone down the hall who is using the same kind of printer.

Hope this helps,
bob desinger