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.