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Re: [Groff] Draft paper: "Writing Effective Manual Pages"
From: |
Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Draft paper: "Writing Effective Manual Pages" |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:46:06 +0100 |
Hi,
Pete Phillips wrote:
> 3 - I'm really interested in learning more about zsh - and I've got a
> free evening !
>
> man zsh | a2ps
>
> wait for the dead tree to arrive in the printer tray, stick it in my
> rucksack
man(1) will produce nicely formatted PostScript for you, rather than
printing out a fixed-width version.
man -t bash | ps2pdf - bash.1.pdf
BTW, does anyone else find the dashes used for options ugly in
bash.1.pdf, e.g. the `-c string' and the `--debugger'.
$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz | grep debugger | sed q
.B \-\-debugger
I think they should be using plain `-', i.e. as
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/man/1/troff does.
Cheers,
Ralph.
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