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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:40:58 -0400
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
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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