From: "Joel Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pages in nroff
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:40:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7871fcf50610121040u67e2c38awede51ff97025c0a3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061010023650.22454.qmail@g.galapagos.bx.psu.edu>
On 9 Oct 2006 22:36:50 -0400, Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu> wrote:
> Unix manpages these days are formatted for online viewing
> just as you suggest, and it seems to work fine.
>
> e.g. linux does:
<snip>
I made myself a cpy of /rc/bin/man, and I'm trying to get the same
effect by changing all the lines that look like:
{echo -n $FONTS; cat $2< /dev/null} | troff $Nflag -$MAN
to
{echo -n $PROLOG; echo -n $FONTS; cat $2< /dev/null; echo -n $EPILOG} | ...
I'm just not sure how to set $PROLOG and $EPILOG.
I've tried:
cpu% cat /sys/man/onepage
PROLOG='.ll 10.6i
.pl 1100i
'
EPILOG='.pl
(nlu+10
'
cpu%
and invoking . /sys/man/onepage at the top of ~/bin/rc/nman, but that
doesn't seem to accomplish anything.
Can someone with more knowledge of troff suggest something?
--Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-12 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-09 0:37 Joel “chesky” Salomon
2006-10-10 2:36 ` Scott Schwartz
2006-10-12 17:40 ` Joel Salomon [this message]
2006-10-12 17:51 ` Russ Cox
2006-10-12 17:58 ` Joel Salomon
2006-10-12 18:01 ` Joel Salomon
2006-10-12 18:11 ` Joel “chesky” Salomon
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