Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen
Anyone tried ansifilter -i bash.1 -o bash.2 yet?
On Sat, 2 Oct 2021, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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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