On Saturday 01 December 2007 15:32, Andre-John Mas wrote: > > Are you aware of Keith Marshall's pdfmark macro package? It's > > available > > under contrib in recent groff versions. It lets you create a link > > in PDF files, amongst other things. I'd guess if you're viewing > > > > file:///home/andre/man/man3/malloc.pdf > > > > and it has a link to ../man1/vgrind.pdf then that would work?
Yep. `.pdfhref L -F path/to/vgrind.pdf -- "text for link hot spot"' > I wasn't aware of it. Thanks. > > Just one question, how would I use it - my groff knowledge is fairly > weak. > I tried: > > groff -mpdfmark -c `man -w csh` > out.pdf > > but that generated a postscript file without the right formatting. You'd have to embed the appropriate `.pdfhref ...' markup in the manpage source, then format with pdfroff --no-toc -man -mpdfmark -c in.man.pdfmark > out.pdf HTH, Keith.
