On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Iron_Man <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm hoping that there is an easy answer to this question. I am trying
> to figure out how to print out a man page for 'bc'. My first attempt
> at doing this was to use the command:
> $ man bc > info.txt
>
> My problem with this command is that when I opened info.txt there were
> a number of formatting oddities. Is there a way to extract the man
> page to a text file, while keeping the formatting true to how you
> would see the man page in the console?
A quick stroll through "man man" reveals two candidates:
man -t alias | lpr -Pps
Format the manual page referenced by `alias', usually
a shell manual page, into the
default troff or groff format and pipe it to the printer
named ps. The default output
for groff is usually PostScript. man --help should advise
as to which processor is bound
to the -t option.
man -l -Tdvi ./foo.1x.gz > ./foo.1x.dvi
This command will decompress and format the nroff source
manual page ./foo.1x.gz into a
device independent (dvi) file. The redirection is
necessary as the -T flag causes output
to be directed to stdout with no pager. The output could
be viewed with a program such
as xdvi or further processed into PostScript using a
program such as dvips.
Although the most likely fix is this:
-7, --ascii
When viewing a pure ascii(7) manual page on a 7 bit
terminal or terminal emulator,
some characters may not display correctly when using
the latin1(7) device description
with GNU nroff. This option allows pure ascii manual
pages to be displayed in ascii
with the latin1 device. It will not translate any
latin1 text. The following table
shows the translations performed: some parts of it may
only be displayed properly when
using GNU nroff's latin1(7) device.
Description Octal latin1 ascii
---------------------------------------------
continuation hyphen 255 - -
bullet (middle dot) 267 o o
acute accent 264 ' '
multiplication sign 327 x x
If the latin1 column displays correctly, your terminal
may be set up for latin1 char-
acters and this option is not necessary. If the latin1
and ascii columns are identi-
cal, you are reading this page using this option or man
did not format this page using
the latin1 device description. If the latin1 column is
missing or corrupt, you may
need to view manual pages with this option.
This option is ignored when using options -t, -H,
-T, or -Z and may be useless for
nroff other than GNU's.
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