Formatting MAN Pages to Fit on One Printer Page

Formatting MAN Pages to Fit on One Printer Page

Post by Creighton MacDonne » Mon, 08 Jan 1996 04:00:00



I would like to print off a lot of MAN pages. I am tired of sitting for hours
in front of this screen!

It would be nice if the pages were formatted so that the page numbers that
come with each MAN page actually ended up at the bottom of the printed page.

Can I use ?roff on the original source or something? Anyone know?

 
 
 

Formatting MAN Pages to Fit on One Printer Page

Post by Michael C Du » Tue, 09 Jan 1996 04:00:00


        There is a utility called mpage which you can use to format
1,2,4,or 8 pages of text per printed page.  It's output is of course
postscript, and you can use it to print out man pages, but I don't
remember exactly how.  But you can find it at:

ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/system/linux/sunsite/system/Printing/
        mpage221.tgz

                                                Good Luck
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                Mike dunn


        Check me out at http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~dunn4614

 
 
 

1. How to format BSD man pages (groff man) using "classical" troff man?

I need to format BSD man pages, apparently written for the new man
macros which can only be used with GNU's groff text formatter,
using "classical" troff and man macros (e.g., troff from DWB 2.0).

Does there exist a conversion tool or a macroset usable with troff?

Please respond by E-MAIL, if necessary I'll summarize.

--

--    Bull Nederland NV, Product Support Unix, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2. kernel 2.0.36

3. Any library to turn HTML page to a man page format?

4. using both SCSI & IDE drives

5. Standard man pages to "Catted" man pages!

6. Pb Maxtor pci adapter card ata 133

7. man can't format new man pages - can't find DESC file

8. Problems with the Task Library ??

9. Printing Man Pages to PS printer vs. PCL Printer (SVR4)?

10. how change a page size for man' output and how insert FF after every pages

11. man-pages-1.16 - manual pages for Linux

12. Solaris 2.3 man pages don't display all available pages

13. Q: Info about paging (count of page-in/page-out)?