Re: man pages in plain text - how to?

[Alex Zbyslaw]

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On  Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:28:07 -0400 , Charles Swiger wrote:

 


On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Wayne wrote:
   

Was wondering how to get "man" to output pages in plain text? I want 
the basic formating (indentation & whatnot) but NOT the bold and other 
special effects.  Just ascii text I can grep through.  I tried setting 
the terminal type to "dumb" and the stupid thing still tries to do 
back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even LA-120s had fancier print 
capabilities than that, IIRC.)
 



The easiest way to do it, I believe, is with  col .  (Just try 'man
col' to check all the options.)  I have used 'man  topic  |  col -b' to
see the man page for  topic  with all the egregious stuff removed, and
I just append to the pipeline '>topic.man' if I want to save it.


 


Or, e.g.:

gzcat /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz | nroff -man -Tascii | colcrt

Man is just calling nroff (unless there's a pre-cat-ed page).

--Alex


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Re: man pages in plain text - how to?

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On  Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:28:07 -0400 , Charles Swiger wrote:

> On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Wayne wrote:
>> Was wondering how to get "man" to output pages in plain text? I want 
>> the basic formating (indentation & whatnot) but NOT the bold and other 
>> special effects.  Just ascii text I can grep through.  I tried setting 
>> the terminal type to "dumb" and the stupid thing still tries to do 
>> back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even LA-120s had fancier print 
>> capabilities than that, IIRC.)

The easiest way to do it, I believe, is with  col .  (Just try 'man
col' to check all the options.)  I have used 'man  topic  |  col -b' to
see the man page for  topic  with all the egregious stuff removed, and
I just append to the pipeline '>topic.man' if I want to save it.


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Re: man pages in plain text - how to?

[David Kelly]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:01:14PM -0400, Wayne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Was wondering how to get "man" to output pages in plain text?  I want 
> the basic formating (indentation & whatnot) but NOT the bold and other 
> special effects.  Just ascii text I can grep through.  I tried setting 
> the terminal type to "dumb" and the stupid thing still tries to do 
> back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even LA-120s had fancier print 
> capabilities than that, IIRC.)

% man man | more

the / command in more/less is a grep-like search.

But if you really really want plainest of plain text then "man -t" will
generate postscript, pipe it into ps2ascii (in the Ghostscript port) and
the result will be long lines but very plain text.

With proper print filters installed "man -t man | lpr" produces beautiful
printed man pages.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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Re: man pages in plain text - how to?

[Charles Swiger]

On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Wayne wrote:
Was wondering how to get "man" to output pages in plain text?  I  
want the basic formating (indentation & whatnot) but NOT the bold  
and other special effects.  Just ascii text I can grep through.  I  
tried setting the terminal type to "dumb" and the stupid thing  
still tries to do back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even  
LA-120s had fancier print capabilities than that, IIRC.)


  env TERM=dumb PAGER=ul man man

...seemed to work OK for me, compare this to not specifying a pager  
when you redirect the output to a file.  Reading "man grotty" might  
give you additional things to tweak...


--
-Chuck

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Re: man pages in plain text - how to?

[Benjamin A'Lee]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:01:14PM -0400, Wayne wrote:
> Was wondering how to get "man" to output pages in plain text?  I want 
> the basic formating (indentation & whatnot) but NOT the bold and other 
> special effects.  Just ascii text I can grep through.  I tried setting 
> the terminal type to "dumb" and the stupid thing still tries to do 
> back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even LA-120s had fancier print 
> capabilities than that, IIRC.)

'col -b' will strip out the bold effects etc.

bma

-- 
Benjamin A'Lee - 
Secretary, TermiSoc - 
"It couldn't be me and be her in between without you" - The Cure,
"Inbetween Days"


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man pages in plain text - how to?

[Wayne]

Hi,

Was wondering how to get "man" to output pages in plain text?  I want 
the basic formating (indentation & whatnot) but NOT the bold and other 
special effects.  Just ascii text I can grep through.  I tried setting 
the terminal type to "dumb" and the stupid thing still tries to do 
back-space overstrike bolding (jeesh - even LA-120s had fancier print 
capabilities than that, IIRC.)


  -Thanks,  Wayne
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