Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-09 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, Stephen Gregoratto wrote on Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 10:41:17AM +1100: > In my opinion I find the PostScript/PDF output from groff to be > better than mandoc's, sorry Ingo :(. Absolutely, that is exactly what i always say. > The font size and line spacing makes a better print, which makes >

Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-08 Thread Stephen Gregoratto
In my opinion I find the PostScript/PDF output from groff to be better than mandoc's, sorry Ingo :(. The font size and line spacing makes a better print, which makes sense considering that groff is a typesetting suite. The catch is that groff doesn't detect if eqn(1) or tbl(1) needs to be run

Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-08 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Beto, Beto wrote on Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 07:45:50AM -0500: > man man | col -b > man.txt This is bad advice in the present context. Look at the Subject: line. Anne asked for "nicely formatted" printing. Your solution would be adequate if the question has been about "minimally formatted",

Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-08 Thread Beto
Hi try man man | col -b > man.txt br El jue., 7 de feb. de 2019 a la(s) 11:03, Anne Wainwright ( anothera...@fables.co.za) escribió: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 09:29:39AM +0200, Anne Wainwright wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can print out nicely formatted man pages in linux, thus: > > > > $ man -t ls

Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-08 Thread Rajneesh N. Shetty
www.dqindia.com/importance-patents-iot-enabled-devices/ Rajneesh N. Shetty On Thu, 7/2/19, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Subject: Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages? To: misc@openbsd.org Received: Thursday, 7 February, 2019, 8:26 PM

Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-07 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote on Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 05:41:57PM +0100: > Op do feb 7 2019, om 14:33 schreef Ingo Schwarze: >> But please, if you can, always provide complete, working, tested >> command invocations to users, in this case: > Apologies - I was on mobile which but that's no excuse.

Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-07 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Op do feb 7 2019, om 14:33 schreef Ingo Schwarze: > But please, if you can, always provide complete, working, tested > command invocations to users, in this case: Apologies - I was on mobile which but that's no excuse.

Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-07 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Anne, Anne Wainwright wrote on Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 05:54:04PM +0200: > I have now got well-formatted pages chugging out from the printer. Good. :-) > I did use the example at the end of the mandoc man which outputs .ps > files. But I did not succeed in persuading lp to print them. Thus: >

Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-07 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Peter, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote on Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 10:26:03AM +0100: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 09:29:39AM +0200, Anne Wainwright wrote: >> I can print out nicely formatted man pages in linux, thus: >> >> $ man -t ls | lpr -P hp_laserjet >> >> But find that the -t option is not

Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-07 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote on Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 09:50:47AM +0100: > Op 7 feb. 2019 om 08:29 heeft Anne Wainwright het volgende geschreven: >> I can print out nicely formatted man pages in linux, thus: >> >> $ man -t ls | lpr -P hp_laserjet >> >> But find that the -t option is not present in

Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-07 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 09:29:39AM +0200, Anne Wainwright wrote: > I can print out nicely formatted man pages in linux, thus: > > $ man -t ls | lpr -P hp_laserjet > > But find that the -t option is not present in bsd. > > Have really dug around but can find no hints, where should I be looking?

Re: How to print nicely formatted man pages?

2019-02-07 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
> Op 7 feb. 2019 om 08:29 heeft Anne Wainwright het > volgende geschreven: > > I can print out nicely formatted man pages in linux, thus: > > $ man -t ls | lpr -P hp_laserjet > > But find that the -t option is not present in bsd. > > Have really dug around but can find no hints, where should