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From: George <d1945 AT sbcglobal DOT net>
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Subject: Printing man pages
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Generating a PDF from the grep man page, for example, using:

   man -t `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf

which, by default, is actually

   /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf

results in a fairly unattractive PDF file.  The man page title is
dropped from the output, and the top margin is borked.

On the other hand, using

   /usr/bin/groff -Thtml -mandoc `man -w grep` > grep.html

yields something more satisfactory, but not in a format for printing.

I'm finding that reading through the groff man page(s) is like
[obligatory hippo joke], so I'm hoping I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks.

-- 
George

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