lp is the most horrible shell script imaginable. The line
for your printer in /sys/lib/lp/devices is supposed to help
match the output of troff to the input your printer expects.
There are people out there who know how to do this. I've long
given up. I just generate postscript/pdf (below's the relevant
piece of the mkfile) and print that.
%.ps:DQ: %.ms
eval `{doctype $home/lib/macros.ms $stem.ms} | \
lp -m.9 -dstdout >$target
%.ps:DQ: %.man
eval `{doctype $home/lib/macros.ms $stem.man} | \
lp -m.9 -dstdout >$target
%.pdf:DQ: %.ps
cat /sys/doc/docfonts $stem.ps >_$stem.ps
ps2pdf _$stem.ps $stem.pdf && rm -f _$stem.ps
# Useful in acme: mk document.show
%.show:VQ: %.ps
page -w $stem.ps
%.ps:D: %.jpg
jpg -t -9 $stem.jpg | lp -dstdout >$target
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> troff -man /sys/man/1/cat | page
Looks good.
> troff -man /sys/man/1/cat | lp -dPrinter
Looks terrible.
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