Man pages to PDF or RTF?
Hi. Nother newbie windoze-user question. I know this has been asked before, apologies and thanks in advance. Is there a windoze util that will convert Linux man pages to RTF or PDF or Postscript? Specifically, what is the format of man pages? TeX/roff /troff/other ??? Is there a HOWTO for man-page format (There must also be a nifty indexing scheme, right?) I really want printable files. I know I can find the man pages in HTML format at many different websites -- that's not the point. Furthermore, I'd prefer to be printing the man pages that live on my own debian installation, not some generic page off the web. rafe b.
Re: Man pages to PDF or RTF?
* Rafe B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Is there a windoze util that will convert Linux man pages to RTF or PDF or Postscript? why would you want a windoze tool to do that? Specifically, what is the format of man pages? TeX/roff /troff/other ??? Is there a HOWTO for man-page format (There must also be a nifty indexing scheme, right?) Try the manpage for man (man man). It tells you how to make dvi-files (from which you can create ps or pdf) or to make postscript-files and directly piping it to a printer and all sorts of stuff. Regards, Stig -- brautaset.org Registered Linux User 107343
RE: Man pages to PDF or RTF?
On 17-Nov-01 Rafe B. wrote: Is there a windoze util that will convert Linux man pages to RTF or PDF or Postscript? Specifically, what is the format of man pages? TeX/roff /troff/other ??? Is there a HOWTO for man-page format (There must also be a nifty indexing scheme, right?) I really want printable files. I know I can find the man pages in HTML format at many different websites -- that's not the point. Don't bother with Windows. Use the -Tdevice option to 'man' (this passes the option to 'groff'). The primary (source) format of man pages is that of 'troff' source text, to be formatted using the -man option to include the tmac.an macros (don't worry, 'man' looks after all that). So, if you want PostScript output, try (for example) man -Tps ls man_ls.ps and you will have the man page for 'ls' in PostScript (view it with say 'gv' or print it as a PS file). You can then convert it to PDF with ps2pdf (part of 'ghostscript'). Also, if you want DVI output, you could use -Tdvi instead. Hope this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 17-Nov-01 Time: 17:08:14 -- XFMail --
Re: Man pages to PDF or RTF?
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Rafe B. wrote:
Hi. Nother newbie windoze-user question.
I know this has been asked before, apologies
and thanks in advance.
Is there a windoze util that will convert
Linux man pages to RTF or PDF or Postscript?
Specifically, what is the format of man pages?
TeX/roff /troff/other ??? Is there a
HOWTO for man-page format (There must also
be a nifty indexing scheme, right?)
I really want printable files. I know I can
find the man pages in HTML format at many
different websites -- that's not the point.
Furthermore, I'd prefer to be printing the
man pages that live on my own debian installation,
not some generic page off the web.
I can't think of a good way of doing this in Windows, unless you
have CygWin and GhostScript installed there.
What I =think= you can do, is something like this...
Go to a directory on your GNU/Linux machine, where you want to place
your PDFs, say /home/rafe/manpages
$ mkdir /home/rafe/manpages
$ cd /home/rafe/manpages
Then, copy your man directory over, so that you can work with them.
$ cp --recursive /usr/share/man/* .
$ cp --recursive /usr/local/man/* .
Now, you have a mirror of your manpages. Run through them and write out
your PDFs. (I am using a bash script to do this, convert to your
favourite shell.)
$ for i in `find .` ; do man -T -l $i | ps2pdf - $i.pdf ; done
After this, you can delete your duplicate manpages, leaving only your
PDFs.
$ find . -name *.gz -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
Now, for this to work, you will need groff, gs, and man-db installed.
Good luck!
Simon
