SUMMARY: "prettyprinting" SGML man pages.

From: Bruce Bowler (bbowler@bigelow.org)
Date: Mon Aug 09 1999 - 07:14:55 CDT


Many thanks to Dieter Gobbers <gobbers@faw.uni-ulm.de> who pointed me in
the direction of /usr/lib/sgml/sgml2roff which turns an sgml document into
a roff document that can then be feed to troff...

Works like a champ! Thanks again Dieter!

Bruce

>Stupid question # 37...
>
>If I have a "troff" man page, I can do...
>
>troff -man $1 | /usr/lib/lp/postscript/dpost | lp
>
>and get nice looking output on my postscript printer. If I do that to an
>SGML formatted man page, I get nice looking SGML on the printer, not the
>man page itself. How does one get a nice, printed version of an SGML man
>page?

Bruce Bowler 207.633.9600 (voice)
Research Associate 207.633.9641 (fax)
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences bbowler@bigelow.org
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