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| From | Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> |
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| Subject | Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way |
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:
> For those who prefer a GUI approach to viewing man pages
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/my-2-favorite-tools-for-reading-linux-manual-pages-the-easy-way/>:
> both GNOME and KDE offer help-centre apps that can display them.
>
> Also, I long ago discovered that KDE Konqueror (the all-encompassing
> web/file/whatnot browser) and its less-ambitious alternative Dolphin,
> can both view man pages via “man://” URLs, and also GNU info pages via
> “info://” URLs.
>
> And, within one of these Linux groups -- I forget which one -- we
> recently discussed how to put together a command line that will
> display a nicely typeset PDF view of a man page. I tried looking for
> an obvious equivalent to that for info pages, but couldn’t see one.
I have a script (haven't used it in awhile):
#!/bin/bash
#
# Converts a man page to a nice PDF. Print it using evince (for example).
PSTOPDF=$(which ps2pdf)
SWITCHES="-"
if [ $? == 1 ] ; then
PSTOPDF=$(which pstopdf)
SWITCHES="-i -o"
fi
if [ $? == 0 ] ; then
if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
NAME="$1"
# man -t $NAME > $NAME.ps ; ps2pdf $NAME.ps $NAME.pdf ; rm $NAME.ps
man -t "$NAME" | "$PSTOPDF" $SWITCHES "$NAME.pdf"
else
echo "Incorrect number of parameters."
echo
echo "Usage: man2pdf appname"
fi
else
echo "? This script requires pstopdf or ps2pdf to be installed."
echo " On Debian this is the 'ghostscript' package."
fi
--
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Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For
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