On Saturday 02 October 2021 07:45:07 Eric S Fraga wrote: > man pages are written in troff/nroff (which can be compiled using > groff) using the man style. You can do the following, for instance: > > gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/chmod.1.gz | groff -man | lp > > (or replace "lp" with "gv -" to see on screen). > > Replace chmod with specific command and note that there is a different > folder for each section of the Unix manual, man1 being for commands, > man2 for system libraries, ... > > troff is how us old-timers used to write before LaTeX took over. I > did my PhD in troff many moon ago on BSD Unix and then SunOS. > Testament to the quality of the software: I can still generate a PDF > of my thesis now after more than 30 years since I wrote it. Try that > in Word... ;-)
And in 3 decades, word will have destroyed it 30 times (or more) :((((( 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>
