PDF manuals

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Wed May 10 01:39:08 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:40 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 12:59 -0500, Alex White wrote:
> > Reading the man page on "man"
> > 
> > man -t mutt > muttdoc.ps && ps2pdf muttdoc.ps muttdoc.pdf
> 
> Nice.  A while ago I found a nice solution to doing the same sort of
> thing but outputing HTML, which is more useful to me than PDF.  I'll
> have to look that up again.  But do you know of any way to stop man from
> splitting words and hyphenating them across margins?  Sometimes it
> happens in the worst of places.

try rman for html conversion - I don't know if it solves your problem,
but it is the best man to html converter I have seen.

Most cases it can go straight from the man page - a few obscure cases,
you need to have man format the page first to file.




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