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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:29:03 +0100
From: "Gorka Guardiola" <paurea@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff -man prints poorly
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:22 PM,  <john@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote:
> I've been writing a man page and wanted to see how it looks
>  when formatted with troff and printed, so I tried:
>  troff -man <file> | dpost | lp
>  only to find that the printout was extremely ugly. Words seem
>  to have run together in some very strange ways; if I had a scanner
>  handy I could show what I mean. Anyway, the same thing happens
>  when I do:
>  troff -man /sys/man/1/cat | dpost | lp
>  but not when I do:
>  troff -ms /sys/doc/asm.ms | dpost | lp
>
>  Am I missing something simple and fundamental, or is troff/dpost
>  just broken?
>

I normally do:

troff -ms bla.ms|lp -dstout| aux/download -H/sys/lib/postscript/font
-mfontmat|lp -H -d printername
and this works for me. What you describe seem to me what happens when
I don't do the download
and add the fonts to the postscript.

I have never used dpost, and I don't know if it substitutes the aux/downloa=
d...
I don=B4t know if you were precisely trying to use dpost not to have to use=
 it...

HTH.
--=20
- curiosity sKilled the cat