On Wednesday 22 October 2008 10:38:40 pm Polytropon wrote:
Hi!
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:56:20 -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Is there an easy way to get man to format the man page using plain good
> ISO 216 standard A4 page size?
My suggfestion for an attempt would be to first strip any control
characters from the output of "man -P cat <entry>" and then pipe
it to an ASCII to PDF converter (a2ps, if I remember correctly);
this would remove any markups, I know, but would lead to a PDF
output using the system's default paper size, A4 (I hope).
I know this is not the best idea, but it should be accomplishable
without many problems. A better idea would be to write a simple
filter that convert the man page (including formatting characters)
into LaTeX source and then run it through pdflatex.
Exactly .. you got it just the way I wanted .. after your explanantion,
the
question _begs_ to be asked: do we, citizens of ISO 216 adopting
countries,
have to walk that cumbersome path in order to get something as simple as
an
ISO compliant document??
Shouldn't it be the other way around???
Perhaps, but since the roots of *BSD are in the USA, letter was a sensible
default (at the time).
Now, if a collection of FreeBSD members from ISO 216 adopting companies
wanted to figure out a way to put "default paper size" into some kind of
locale option that man (and other tools) could use, then that would go a
long way towards reducing the pain.
--
Matt
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