Re: [man pages, groff] How to set a wrap point?

[Riku Saikkonen <rjs@lloke.dna.fi>]

>  When groff formats a man page file like 'bash.1',
>  the formatted main text will be centered.
>
>  Do you know how to change this so I can wrap the text
>  at a certain column (e.g. at column 75).
...
>  But when printing it on paper I'd rather save paper
>  and not hold a heavy stack of paper!

I don't know about wrapping the text, but there is a better way to print
manual pages (getting an appearance similar to xman's display): Use "man -t
bash >bash.ps" to get a PostScript version of the man page, and print that
(using GhostScript or magicfilter if you don't have a PostScript printer).
You can also process the PostScript file using psnup or pstops (in the
psutils package) to get multiple pages on one sheet of paper.

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