Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 06:23:15 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Manpage to PS and Printer Control Message-ID: <19990115202316.14191.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <199901151734.MAA00481@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> of Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:34:29 EST References: <199901151734.MAA00481@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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> I know I've seen this a zillion times, but when you want to actually
> do it, you can never figure it out or find the reference...
>
> I want to convert some manpages to PostScript for printing. I thought
> it would be as easy as,
>
> % gunzip -c /usr/local/man/cat1/<command>.gz | groff | lpr
The obvious place to start finding out how to print man pages is
in the man page for man. In there you will find the -t option
discussed, including the correct groff incantation to replace
the one you used if you want to do it by hand.
> And the output looks pretty good (underlines in place, etc.), but for
> some reason my printer likes doing it in landscape.
> [...]
> printf "\033&k2G" && cat && printf "\f" && exit 0
Well you could always add a command to put it into portrait mode
as part of your filter. The sequence is "Esc & l 0 O" -- those
last three characters are a lowercase L, a zero, and uppercase O
which in printf terms is "\033&l0O", so you could make that line
printf "\033&l0O\033&k2G" && cat && printf "\f" && exit 0
--
Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>
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