McKown, John writes:
> Very nice! Thanks. I guess that I'm going to end up dedicating a
> weekend day to just read the entire output from "info bash". Luckily,
> I can create a text file from it, convert it to PDF format, then
> read the PDF directly on my Kindle DX or Android tablet.
In case you weren't aware of it already, the utilities used to
process the *roff macros used in man pages support typesetting to
PostScript as well as generating simple text output. So typing
man -t bash > bash-man.ps
will generate you a nicely formatted PostScript version of the
man page in bash-man.ps, fancy fonts and all, instead of what you'd
get from just taking the text version. That's suitable for direct
pringting but you can instead just
ps2pdf bash-man.ps
to produce your bash-man.pdf PDF version.
Using "info bash" instead of "man bash" uses a slightly different
source of documentation (the FSF document their own programs in their
own GNU info format instead of man pages) but you'll nearly always
find that some nice people have already ensured that your distro has
man pages for the programs as well and that they have either exactly
the same content or are "close enough" for most purposes. There are
ways of generating various typeset-like formats from info format too
but I forget what they are and I don't think they are as simple as
just adding "-t" to your man command invocation.
--Malcolm
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Malcolm Beattie
Mainframe Systems and Software Business, Europe
IBM UK
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