I am wanting to view the file on my screen with a text editor (gedit). More then likely the issue is with me not understanding the instructions, then the instructions themselves.
On Dec 18, 10:20 am, Ryan Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > What are you hoping to do with the file, and how much of the > formatting are you trying to preserve? > > So far you've been given instructions for formatted printing on a > printer and outputting to several formats, including postscript, dvi, > and plain text. If you are wanting something like PDF, postscript or > dvi are what you want (man dvi2ps, man ps2pdf). > > I have a really short script I wrote at work to make a compilation PDF > of a set of man pages. I can send it to you after I get in if that > sounds like it is what you are after. > > ~Ryan > > On 18-Dec-08, at 6:36 AM, Iron_Man <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > 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/- > >> Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
