Ingo Schwarze wrote in <20200214184532.gj92...@athene.usta.de>: |Hi Jeff, | |Jeff Conrad wrote on Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 03:45:10PM -0800: | |> A major drawback to manual pages formatted using the man macros is the |> lack of bookmarks in a PDF file. A quick and dirty way to get bookmarks |> appears to be adding |> |> .am SH |> .pdfbookmark 1 "\&\\$*" |> .. |> .am SS |> .pdfbookmark 2 "\&\\$*" |> .. |> |> to the beginning of the man page source | |Just don't do that. Never use low-level roff stuff in manual pages, |don't even think about it. This makes your manual pages non-portable. | |If you want bookmark support for PDF output from man(7) files, |that needs to be done in the file an-old.tmac, but in a careful |way that does not cause incompatibilities and that does not |require including any other macro files. It may be tricky, |but it may well be possible.
Yes, i have already mailed him in private. It actually takes four lines of code and produces good results, i could not reproduce his problems. I asked him whether he wants to open an issue, i for myself will add (at least) the four lines when i finally, finally come to my own roff port. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
