On Friday 01 October 2021 17:01:56 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:59:25PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 01 October 2021 12:34:16 Larry Martell wrote: > > > > man -t /path/to/man/file >file.txt > > groff -mandoc /path/to/man/file > file.txt, both quadrupled the size > > with lots more markup. > > > > Not what I want obviously. > > There is nothing obvious here. What do you want? Why? What are you > going to do with the resulting file(s)?
What I wanted on dead tree, was exactly what I see on screen. With the manpage markup gobbled up, leaving only the text I see on screen when I type man 9 filename. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
