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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!root From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@apl.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to format man pages to lpr --- reasonably? Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:46:12 -0700 Organization: University of Washington Lines: 40 Message-ID: <326476A4.41C67EA6@apl.washington.edu> References: <53m1qp$3vq@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <5417s5$t49@cnn.exu.ericsson.se> <541oke$ifg@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-C2.apl.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386) John Fieber wrote: > > In article <5417s5$t49@cnn.exu.ericsson.se>, > exujbm@exu.ericsson.se (Ben Madison) writes: > > Bob Keys (rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu) wrote: > >> > >> man <manpage> | a2ps -1 -a -i -m -p | lpr was better but still had bad > >> > >> fits with the backspace and underscores from the man pgm. I can't seem to > >> find any more options that should properly pass manpages through a2ps. I > >> would have thought that the -i and -m options would have taken care of that. > >> Perhaps an intermediate filter of some sort is required? > > > > I use a little perl filter, "unman": > > > > #!/usr/local/bin/perl -n > > s/_[\b]//g; > > print; > > > > Then just do: > > > > man <manpage> | unman | a2ps <whatever> | lpr > > Ack! > > Five follups in this thread an apparently not one person bothered to > read the man man page! If you have a postscript printer (or > ghostscript driving somthing else) all you have to do is: > > man -t <manpage> | lpr > Does this preprocess with pic, tbl, eqn? The man manpage does not discuss this. I stand by my original post. -- Steve finger -l kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/sgk.html