On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote: =>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- =>Hash: SHA1 => =>At some point hitherto, Steven W. Orr hath spake thusly: =>> gunzip < /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz | groff -pte -man | lpr =>> =>> Try it :-) => =>This is essentially identical to Matt's man -t bash, only with a lot =>more typing. => =>The other difference is that it uses the deprecated "an" troff macros, =>as opposed to the more current "andoc" troff macros. These macros are =>kept in /usr/share/groff/<groff version>/tmac in the files an.tmac and =>andoc.tmac, respectively. The latter is supposedly a newer, nicer set =>of macros for formatting man pages. => =>- -- =>Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not at all. When you pipe man to lpr all you get is typewriter font going to the printer, same as what you see on the screen.
My way, you are producing a mucgh more attractive PostScript which uses proportional fonts and uses different ones for the different components of the document. Try this gunzip < /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz | groff -pte -man > bash.ps gv bash.ps You probably wouldn't want to do this on the screen, but it really is better for printing. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
