On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:55:19PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:36:46PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:53:28PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > Gerard Seibert wrote: > > > > I am trying to figure out how to print 'man' pages. If I try a simple > > > > redirect, such as: "man foo > foo.txt" the new file is loaded with > > > > control symbols, etc. that are not really printable. I want to save > > > > the files if possible, and print them out at a later date. It that is > > > > not possible, how would I go about printing them out in real time? > > > > > > man -t foo > foo.ps > > > > > > will generate Postscript output, which is a lot better for printing. > > > > Highly useful to know, but shouldn't we update the man page for man(1)? > > > > -t Use /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual page, > > passing > > the output to stdout. The output from /usr/bin/groff -S > > -man > > may need to be passed through some filter or another before > > being printed. > > > > This does not exactly spell 'output postscript' to me... > > It does if you know that postscript is the default output format of > groff. If one doesn't know what format groff outputs by default, it is > easily learned by reading the groff(1) manpage.
True. I'm all in favor of a little bit more userfriendliness in man pages
as long as it's not overkill though.
How about:
-t Generate a Postscript version of the manpage, intended for
printing, by using /usr/bin/groff -S -man to format the manual
page, passing the output to stdout. The output from
/usr/bin/groff -S -man may need to be passed through some
filter or another before being printed.
That way I can do /print in less and still get some useful hint.
I'm no good with {t,g,n}roff and written English, so no patch...
--Stijn
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