Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 00:23:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Printing Manpages Message-ID: <199905040423.AAA02502@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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I want to print out some long manpages. I know how to convert a manpage to Postscript and print it quite easily, % man -t topic | lpr Where 'topic' is the page of choice. However, I'd like to print two columns on a page (two manpage pages per page of paper). I know of a kind of ugly work around, % gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/topic.1.gz | groff -man -Tascii | enscript -2r But that is an ugly command line and the output is not too pretty either (it works, but unless enscript gets some tweaking, page breaks and other things are off). Anyone have a better way to convert manpages to a pretty two column per page form? Perhaps piping through gs somehow (the word 'column' is not even on 'man gs' so I don't know where to start there)? Or maybe enscript is the right tool with some different options? Thanks for any help. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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