* Giorgos Keramidas [2011-01-20 06:03 -0500]:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:51:45 -0600, "David J. Weller-Fahy"
> wrote:
> > Regardless, I ended up finding two solutions.
>
> Nice! I'll check with our groff maintainer(s) to see if they have
> plans to MFC the latest man/groff stuff.
That would be
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:02:56 -0800, Charlie Kester
wrote:
>> In ancient times man was originally a shell script. What is old is new
>> again.
>
> Is this a consequence of the move to mdocml instead of groff?
No, we are still using groff's groff_mdoc(7) package for authoring
manpage content.
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On Wed 19 Jan 2011 at 21:36:19 PST David Kelly wrote:
On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:51 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
[...]
That did the job, but made `man -k`, which my fingers find familiar,
unusable. I remembered you were running a CURRENT snapshot, so figured
I'd check the difference between m
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:51:45 -0600, "David J. Weller-Fahy"
wrote:
> * Giorgos Keramidas [2011-01-19 02:57 -0500]:
>> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> >> Set the 'columns' attribute of your tty:
>> >
On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:51 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
[...]
> That did the job, but made `man -k`, which my fingers find familiar,
> unusable. I remembered you were running a CURRENT snapshot, so figured
> I'd check the difference between man in HEAD and 8.1-RELEASE... WOW!
> The man in HEA
* David Kelly [2011-01-18 07:05 -0500]:
> As for the request not to be CC'ed in reply, put the list address in
> the Reply-To: header as I have done here.
I started to last night, and realized I couldn't devise a simple way to
do so automatically for all lists I subscribe to without keeping a lis
* Polytropon [2011-01-18 13:44 -0500]:
> man2pdf.sh:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> [ "$1" != "" ] && zcat `man -w $1` | \
> groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc | ps2pdf - $1.pdf
>
> This would cause groff to format for A4 paper width. It's fully
> possible that a similar approach can be us
* Giorgos Keramidas [2011-01-19 02:57 -0500]:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >> Set the 'columns' attribute of your tty:
> >> stty columns 60
> >> man xxx
> >
> > *Should*? You posted withou
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:29:18 -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, "David J. Weller-Fahy"
>> wrote:
>>> To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man`
>>> not to automatically format
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:48:13 -0600, David Kelly wrote:
>
> On Jan 17, 2011, at 9:40 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
>
> > To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to
> > automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly
> > easy way to do this,
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, "David J. Weller-Fahy"
> wrote:
> > To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man`
> > not to automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking
> > for a fairly eas
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:38 -0600, "David J. Weller-Fahy"
wrote:
> To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to
> automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly
> easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal
> gymnastics I ma
On Jan 17, 2011, at 9:40 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
> To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to
> automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly
> easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal
> gymnastics I may not be
In the last episode (Jan 17), David J. Weller-Fahy said:
> To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to
> automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly
> easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal gymnastics
> I may not be wi
To expand on the question in the subject: How does one tell `man` not to
automatically format man pages to 80 columns? I'm looking for a fairly
easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve internal
gymnastics I may not be willing to perform.
The quick fixes which did not work: I ensured
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