On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:08:45PM +0000, Deri James wrote: >> On Wed 26 Feb 2014 10:19:07 Mike Bianchi wrote: >> > I cannot find  man.config  or any reference to it in Debian 7.4 >> (wheezy). > It looks like on debian the answer is to create a shell script called > "mandb_tfmt" to do exactly what you want when man -t is used. > Unfortunately my only version of debian is on a sheevaplug which is not > up to running an X server, but the man page says:- > > A formatting pipeline is formed from the filters and the primary > formatter (nroff or [tg]roff with -t) and executed.
It appears that /etc/manpath.config holds the magic configurations. Witness: : # Program definitions. These are commented out by default as the value # of the definition is already the default. To change: uncomment a # definition and modify it. # #DEFINE pager pager -s #DEFINE cat cat #DEFINE tr tr '\255\267\264\327' '\055\157\047\170' #DEFINE grep grep #DEFINE troff groff -mandoc #DEFINE nroff nroff -mandoc #DEFINE eqn eqn #DEFINE neqn neqn #DEFINE tbl tbl #DEFINE col col #DEFINE vgrind vgrind #DEFINE refer refer #DEFINE grap grap #DEFINE pic pic -S # #DEFINE compressor gzip -c7 : -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com