Re: [Groff] Converting man pages to PDF and links

2007-12-02 Thread Larry Kollar
Keith Marshall wrote: 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"' The "fun" starts if you want to make this at all general. A q

Re: [Groff] Converting man pages to PDF and links

2007-12-01 Thread Keith Marshall
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://

Re: [Groff] Converting man pages to PDF and links

2007-12-01 Thread Andre-John Mas
On 1-Dec-07, at 05:08 , Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Andre-John, I am currently using the following script for generating PDF version of my man pages: http://www.aasan.org/download/man2pdf To add extra value I would like to have the references to other man pages to be hyper-links, since I will

Re: [Groff] Converting man pages to PDF and links

2007-12-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Andre-John, > I am currently using the following script for generating PDF version > of my man pages: > > http://www.aasan.org/download/man2pdf > > To add extra value I would like to have the references to other man > pages to be hyper-links, since I will be using them in a web browser. > Ca

Re: [Groff] Converting man pages to PDF and links

2007-11-30 Thread Meg McRoberts
I have no idea how to do that but I know it is possible - SCO had a customized set of mm/man macros that provided this functionality. We built the entire doc set (man pages and manuals) into HTML and had hot-linked cross-reference from any document to any document, with tools to check the links be