Re: [Groff] Unix Man Pages

[J Robinson]

Thanks for the tips, everyone! I got that worked out.

Is there a way I can stop the text from being
hyphenated?

jrobinson

--- Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> > Suppose I had a list of pathnames to a system's
> man pages (like
> > /usr/lib/perl5/man/man3/POSIX.3.gz,
> /usr/man/man3/mitem_visible.3x,
> > etc.) What would be a good cross *nix way to
> convert them to ascii?
> 
> man(1) kicks off nroff(1) or troff(1), or something
> similiar, to convert
> the troff source to the desired output format.
> 
> > I've found that even % man
> /usr/man/man3/mitem_visible.3x doesn't work
> > on freebsd, for example: it wants % man 3x
> mitem_visible but this
> > could be ambiguous about which man page to output.
> > 
> > Any tips on how to approach this in a
> *nix-independent manner (while
> > still retaining man page formatting) are most
> welcome. Thanks in
> > advance for any tips or leads.
> 
> Cross-Unix, therefore not recent groff-specific, I'd
> go for
> 
>     nroff -Tdumb -man /path/to/manpagefile.1 | col
> -b
> 
> You might find some man pages want tbl(1) used, but
> the idea's the same.
> 
> If that doesn't work somewhere, let us know.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Ralph.
> 
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