On Wednesday 22 October 2008 11:19:16 pm Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Polytropon wrote: > > 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). > > But groff can do A4. Just as a first pass: > > zcat `man -w ls` | groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc | ps2pdf - tmp.pdf > > It produces the right media size in the PS file, but I can't really test > it because I don't have any A4 paper. > > Maybe there's a way to get man(1) to send different options to groff > than -t, but I don't know it. > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
You just rule ... Thank you I mean it .. Thanks a lot :) My best regards :D -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
