Re: man files to text editor
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:14:09AM -0800, cls@truffula.sj.ca.us wrote:
> That will work for small manpages. But you will not like
> what it does for big ones. Here is a better way.
>
> 1. Find the manpage source.
>
> $ whereis bash
> bash: /bin/bash /etc/bash.bashrc /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz
>
> 2. Typeset it in Postscript.
>
> # apt-get install groff gs gv
> $ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz | groff -Tps -mandoc - > bash.1.ps
FWIW, in testing and unstable you shouldn't need the groff package for
this (just groff-base). It was kind of a mistake that the PostScript
device ended up in the non-base package, but I didn't manage to get the
fix into woody.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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