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author | Jeff Bigler <jcb@mit.edu> | 1996-09-06 17:16:30 +0000 |
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committer | Jeff Bigler <jcb@mit.edu> | 1996-09-06 17:16:30 +0000 |
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Completely rewrote Makefile. Fixed up man2ps script and wrote manpage
for it.
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diff --git a/doc/man2ps.M b/doc/man2ps.M new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc4e4ad --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/man2ps.M @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +.TH MAN2PS 1 +.SH NAME +man2ps \- create individual PostScript files for each page of a man page +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B man2ps +.I file +[\fIfile2\fP [\fI...\fP]] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B man2ps +is a bourne shell script that turns a man page into a set of PostScript +files, for inclusion in a document. +.B man2ps +converts the man page to a PostScript file using +.IR troff (1), +and then uses the +.IR csplit (1) +command to split the file into individual pages. +.B man2ps +inserts the PostScript command: +.sp +.nf +.in +.5i +\&.7 dup scale +.in -.5i +.fi +.sp +at the beginning of each page, so that the pages will fit onto a page in +a standard size reference manual (7"x9.25"). +.PP +The files created by +.B man2ps +have the same name as the command, with a sequential number and the +string ".ps" appended. For example, running +.B man2ps +on the file "kinit.M" would produce the PostScript files "kinit1.ps", +"kinit2.ps", ... +.SH SEE ALSO +troff(1), csplit(1) +.SH BUGS +.B man2ps +fails if the +.I csplit +command is not in the user's path. + |