Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen
On Saturday 02 October 2021 11:13:09 Brian wrote:
> On Fri 01 Oct 2021 at 17:32:37 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 01 October 2021 17:17:53 Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > We still don't know why you want this. I guess we'll never know.
> >
> > We apparently don't speak the same dialect of english Greg. I wanted
> > a dead tree (aka paper) copy of a manpage, with ALL the markup
> > totally stripped. As for Lee's suggestion, I didn't try it since
> > Cindy's example worked perfectly and by the time I read Lee's msg, I
> > had what I needed on the output tray of my huge printer. No
> > reflection on Lee was intended. Still isn't.
>
> Nitpicking time :).
True. TBT, the use of bold was not something these old eyes considered.
> You specified "...so what we save is exactly what
> we see." Neither Cindy Sue Cause's mor Lee's give *exactly* what is
> seen onscreen. If bolded headings are unwanted, either method gives a
> nice text file to print.
Yes, I should have more precisely stated "text". :(
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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