well ... I'm starting to answer my own question. I discovered that vim (and especially vim -g) has a whole lot of options for formatting pages. I can set the syntax of a text file containing a man page to 'man page' and then convert it to HTML and then save the file in PDF from a browser... but there must be a better way - also there is a space between each bolded character and some strange ^I^I characters that shouldn't be there - maybe something to do with carriage returns...
cheers, David Orlovich.

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 08:34 AM, David Orlovich wrote:

Hello fink beginners.

Does anyone have a good way of formatting manpages for printing? I guess I'm thinking a pdf would be best, with some control over fonts, emphasis etc. Is there a fink package that'll do it? I've been looking through what's available but not found anything simple. I guess I could try to work out how to write a script to do it, but I'm not sure how to control things like emphasised text, fonts etc.

Any help appreciated! Cheers, David.


Dr David Orlovich
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