Hi,
Anthony J. Bentley wrote on Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 07:15:07PM -0600:
Eric Oyen writes:
h. that may be another method of viewing a man page, converting
it to a text based PDF. that is something to consider.
mandoc supports PDF output as well.
For example, with the following command:
Am I right you need ASCII-like output without extra formatting (e.g.,
terminal escape codes)? Something like:
xyz utility does the following: blah-blah. The options are as follows: -h
to make you happy. -k to kill your ex-girl's kitten. -v to make sure
everyone know what are you doing. See also
I use OpenOffice for editing html pages. this makes editing web pages
remarkably easy for me. Believe me, editing raw html is a real pita. so, if I
want to properly edit a man page, I need to use something that supports DOC 7?
that wood be nice to have on my OS X system.
Here's a really funny
On 27 July 2012 14:50, Eric Oyen technomage.ha...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to use something that supports DOC 7?
What is DOC 7? Do you mean the Microsoft Office 97 binary .doc file format?
it was mentioned in another posting in this thread. I am not sure what uses
that specific format.
-eric
On Jul 27, 2012, at 6:27 AM, ropers wrote:
On 27 July 2012 14:50, Eric Oyen technomage.ha...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to use something that supports DOC 7?
What is DOC 7? Do you mean the
something like that.
also, you might see a few responses from my alternate email
(technomage.hawke@***.***). I need to make sure my send field is set
correctly. g.
I am not sure what application would be good for editing (or creating) man
pages such that I don't need to worry about all of
On 27 July 2012 14:50, Eric Oyen technomage.ha...@gmail.com wrote:
a braille API that works in Linux and all flavors of BSD:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=trct=jq=braille+screenreader+OpenBSDsource=we
bcd=8ved=0CKsEEBYwBwurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhal.inria.fr%2Fdocs%2F00%2F13%2F59%2F
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 15:27, ropers wrote:
On 27 July 2012 14:50, Eric Oyen technomage.ha...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to use something that supports DOC 7?
What is DOC 7? Do you mean the Microsoft Office 97 binary .doc file format?
mdoc. I think his screen reader doesn't even read man
I tried the copy link option in the context menu for Safari. It should have
given the direct link but I got that instead. sometimes, being blind can be a
real Pain in the backside.
I hope that was a text based pdf. the pdf app I use here (Safari) will spit a
blank page at me in voiceover if its
h! that explains a lot. now I know where to go. :)
On Jul 27, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Ted Unangst wrote:
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 15:27, ropers wrote:
On 27 July 2012 14:50, Eric Oyen technomage.ha...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to use something that supports DOC 7?
What is DOC 7? Do you mean
Eric Oyen wrote:
I tried the copy link option in the context menu for Safari. It
should have
given the direct link but I got that instead. sometimes, being blind
can be a
real Pain in the backside.
That's not your fault, that is Google (and everyone else) substituting
their own
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:51:46PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
Eric Oyen wrote:
I tried the copy link option in the context menu for Safari. It
should have
given the direct link but I got that instead. sometimes, being
blind can be a
real Pain in the backside.
That's not your fault,
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, ropers wrote:
From: ropers rop...@gmail.com
To: Eric Oyen technomage.ha...@gmail.com
Cc: misc misc@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:25:14
Subject: Re: man page contents [was: Re: C**.org]
...
Even with that, I didn't quite manage with OpenBSD (there seems
On 27 July 2012 18:51, Kurt Mosiejczuk kurt-openbsd-m...@se.rit.edu wrote:
Eric Oyen wrote:
I tried the copy link option in the context menu for Safari. It should
have
given the direct link but I got that instead. sometimes, being blind can
be a
real Pain in the backside.
That's not your
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 19:11, Marc Espie wrote:
I'm surprised there aren't more plugins to fix that.
Especially since the link shows the actual location, encoded !
maybe try this? pretty simple, worksforme (c).
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/107272
. that is something to consider.
-eric
On Jul 27, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Dennis Davis wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, ropers wrote:
From: ropers rop...@gmail.com
To: Eric Oyen technomage.ha...@gmail.com
Cc: misc misc@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:25:14
Subject: Re: man page contents [was: Re: C
that may be another method of viewing a man page
You can use:
man manpagename | col -b file
to convert a page to a text file, this might be easier for you to read/edit.
Brett.
Eric Oyen writes:
h. that may be another method of viewing a man page, converting it to a
text based PDF. that is something to consider.
mandoc supports PDF output as well. For example, with the following command:
mandoc -Tpdf /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1 /tmp/ls.pdf
man,
the format of that page is ugly to listen to. lots of back slashes. I noticed
there didn't appear to be any line/returns in there (and that is something my
screen reader doesn't make clear either).
I will have to find an online version of the man page mentioned below.
-eric
On Jul 26,
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 17:27, Eric Oyen wrote:
man,
the format of that page is ugly to listen to. lots of back slashes. I noticed
there didn't appear to be any line/returns in there (and that is
something my
screen reader doesn't make clear either).
It is a markup language. Is editing HTML
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