I guess I used the wrong wording ... I am wanting to "print" or redirect the output to a text file. Sorry about the bug in my wording.
On Dec 17, 9:48 pm, "Chris Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Registered Linux Addict #431495http://profile.xfire.com/mrstalinman| John > 3:16!http://www.fsdev.net/|http://lordsauron.wordpress.com/ > Parents, Take Responsibility For Your Kids!http://www.whattheyplay.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
