Re: How to format man pages for A4 paper printing?

2002-03-09 Thread Ed Wilts
From: José Romildo Malaquias [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:00:42PM -0600, Vidiot wrote: Read up on groff. You can give it a paper option. I did not found how to give a paper option to groff. Can anybody point me how to do that. Please read

Re: How to format man pages for A4 paper printing?

2002-03-09 Thread Vidiot
From: José Romildo Malaquias [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:00:42PM -0600, Vidiot wrote: Read up on groff. You can give it a paper option. I did not found how to give a paper option to groff. Can anybody point me how to do that. Please read

Re: How to format man pages for A4 paper printing?

2002-03-08 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:00:42PM -0600, Vidiot wrote: Read up on groff. You can give it a paper option. I did not found how to give a paper option to groff. Can anybody point me how to do that. Thanks. Romildo -- Prof. José Romildo Malaquias Departamento de Computação

Re: How to format man pages for A4 paper printing?

2002-03-07 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:41:46AM +0100, Rick van der Linde wrote: I want to print some manuals, but the default formatting I am getting is for letter paper and I am using A4 paper. I am doing: $ man -t fvwm2 | lpr to print the fvwm2 manual, for example. What should I do to

Re: How to format man pages for A4 paper printing?

2002-03-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06:30 07 Mar 2002, José Romildo Malaquias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:41:46AM +0100, Rick van der Linde wrote: | I want to print some manuals, but the default formatting I am getting | is for letter paper and I am using A4 paper. I am doing: |$ man -t

Re: How to format man pages for A4 paper printing?

2002-03-07 Thread Vidiot
We do this a different way: we use nroff for the formatting (implicitly by using the output of the man command) and feed it to a2ps, using its A4 options. Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Read up on groff. You can give it a paper option. MB --

Re: How to format man pages for A4 paper printing?

2002-03-05 Thread Rick van der Linde
Hello. I want to print some manuals, but the default formatting I am getting is for letter paper and I am using A4 paper. I am doing: $ man -t fvwm2 | lpr to print the fvwm2 manual, for example. What should I do to get A4 paper formatting? I can't tell you exactly what to do. But

RE: How to format man pages for A4 paper printing?

2002-03-05 Thread Linux
This can be best done by using Google and typing for example man iptables or whatever they are all up there Mike -Original Message- From: Rick van der Linde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 5 March 2002 23:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to format man pages for A4