moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) (06/25/91)
> there is no ascii rendition of >the man pages, and I don't have text processing tools >(which is another flame entirely - anyone know of >any good text processing tools available for public consumption?). TeX and LaTeX? :-) (see pit-manager.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/comp.text.tex/Frequently_Asked_Questions_about_TeX,_etc._-_with_Answers_[Monthly]) The simple solution is to pick up Henry Spencer's Amazingly Workable Formatter (awf) from any comp.sources.unix archive site. It's an awk rewrite of "nroff -man" and a subset of "nroff -ms". Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu Posting-number: Volume 23, Issue 27 Archive-name: awf or ftp.cs.toronto.edu:pub/awf.shar.Z It's a bit slow, but does format the C News manual pages. If you don't have awk, get either mawk (oxy.edu:public/mawk0.995.tar.Z) or gawk (prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/gawk-2.13.tar.Z) For a more general solution, try GNU groff. (prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/groff-1.02.tar.Z) It's written in C++ so you will need a C++ compiler or g++ (also available from prep.ai.mit.edu) to compile it. For those with a non-PostScript HP LaserJet printer (groff doesn't support it yet), or have old (non-ditroff) troff and want to convert to ditroff/PostScript/LaserJet, try Chris Lewis' psroff (due to show up in comp.sources.unix any day now, if it hasn't already appeared, also on ftp.cs.toronto.edu:pub/psroff-3.0/*) Mark.
tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no (Tarjei Jensen) (06/25/91)
There is also something called cawf. This I believe is a C version of awf. I suppose you'll find it on wsrm-simtel20.army.mil or its mirrors (wuarchive.wustl.edu and friends). -- // Tarjei T. Jensen - if it ain't broken, fix it anyway! // tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no || +47 87 21138 // Working, but not speaking for the Norwegian National Library.
ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) (06/26/91)
moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes: > For those with a non-PostScript HP LaserJet printer (groff doesn't > support it yet), It's not a problem. groff will produce DVI. There are several DVI->HPLJII drivers about -- I use one from nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at (pub/src/Typeset/dvi2xx/*) -- thanks to comp.archives for that one. groff comes with font widths prebuilt for the CM fonts too, although it will sometimes want odd magnifications, so you may have to build the pk's yourself. -- Ronald Khoo <ronald@robobar.co.uk> +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)
clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) (06/26/91)
In article <1991Jun25.185951.6833@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes: |moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes: |> For those with a non-PostScript HP LaserJet printer (groff doesn't |> support it yet), |It's not a problem. groff will produce DVI. There are several |DVI->HPLJII drivers about -- I use one from nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at |(pub/src/Typeset/dvi2xx/*) -- thanks to comp.archives for that one. Or use groff's ditroff output and drive jetroff (may need a little diddling) or psroff (should work out of the box). -- Chris Lewis, Phone: (613) 832-0541, Domain: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca UUCP: ...!cunews!latour!ecicrl!clewis; Ferret Mailing List: ferret-request@eci386; Psroff (not Adobe Transcript) enquiries: psroff-request@eci386 or Canada 416-832-0541. Psroff 3.0 in c.s.u soon!