Re: [Groff] Converting man pages to PDF and links

[Andre-John Mas]

On 1-Dec-07, at 05:08 , Ralph Corderoy wrote:

> Hi Andre-John,
>
> > I am currently using the following script for generating PDF version
> > of my man pages:
> >
> > http://www.aasan.org/download/man2pdf
> >
> > To add extra value I would like to have the references to other man
> > pages to be hyper-links, since I will be using them in a web browser.
> > Can anyone suggest a way doing this?
>
> Are you aware of Keith Marshall's pdfmark macro package?  It's  
> available
> under contrib in recent groff versions.  It lets you create a link in
> PDF files, amongst other things.  I'd guess if you're viewing
>
>    file:///home/andre/man/man3/malloc.pdf
>
> and it has a link to ../man1/vgrind.pdf then that would work?

I wasn't aware of it. Thanks.

Just one question, how would I use it - my groff knowledge is fairly  
weak.
I tried:

groff -mpdfmark -c `man -w csh` > out.pdf

but that generated a postscript file without the right formatting.

Andre