From: Sape Mullender <sape@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff -man prints poorly
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:32:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca3da9a903170ce7e41ab70c7bdf166b@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0497b4634bc7e790a2fd0adf29263215@csplan9.rit.edu>
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troff -man /sys/man/1/cat | page
troff -man /sys/man/1/cat | lp -dPrinter
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From: john@csplan9.rit.edu
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] troff -man prints poorly
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:22:49 -0500
Message-ID: <0497b4634bc7e790a2fd0adf29263215@csplan9.rit.edu>
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?
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-26 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-26 18:22 john
2008-02-26 18:29 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-02-26 18:40 ` john
2008-02-27 15:54 ` Russ Cox
2008-02-27 17:25 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-02-26 18:32 ` Sape Mullender [this message]
2008-02-26 18:36 ` john
2008-02-26 19:17 ` Sape Mullender
2008-02-26 19:46 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-26 20:19 ` Sape Mullender
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