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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!usenet From: Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: printing man pages in ps format? not ! Date: 2 Nov 1995 23:27:51 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corp Lines: 42 Message-ID: <47bk5n$2ao@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ozyd13-p3.ozy.dec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Anyone know why the printing of man pages Bold in ps format produces double chars (i.e. <char><backspace><repeAT_CHAR> which doesn't work well for ps !!). I get a message from troff: ozyd13-p3%/root# man printcap | groff -t -b -v -man -T ps > printcap.ps GNU tbl version 1.08 GNU troff version 1.08 <standard input>:35: warning: can't find font `'' I suppose this is the bold/wide font but all the usual fonts appear to be there: ls /usr/share/groff_font/devps/ AB CBI HNI PI ZD ABI CI HNR PR ZDR AI CR HR S download AR DESC NB SS generate/ BMB HB NBI TB prologue BMBI HBI NI TBI symbolsl.pfa BMI HI NR TI text.enc BMR HNB PB TR zapfdr.pfa CB HNBI PBI ZCMI Pardon my ignornace of roff issues if this is obvious Thanks Jon -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Dr Jon Jenkins Location: Digital Equipment Corporation NaC Voice/Fax: 61-7-55-75-0151/100 Burnett Place, Research Park, Inet: jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com Bond University, Gold Coast Close Proximity: "HEY YOU !!!" QLD, AUSTRALIA 4229 "Daddy, what's outside the Universe?" (My 5 year old.....) -----------------------------------------------------------------------