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Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way

From vallor <vallor@vallor.earth>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way
Date 2025-11-13 14:54 +0000
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At Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:56:12 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

> On 2025-11-13 00:20, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> > 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.
>
> What's the advantage of reading man pages as PDFs?
>
> There are no font niceties, no pictures, no hyperlinks.

Rather than having colorful terminal output, you get *bold*
and /italic/ fonts.

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My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-12 23:20 +0000
  Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-12 23:51 +0000
    Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-13 11:01 +0000
      Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-13 20:05 +0000
  Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-11-13 08:29 -0500
    Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-11-13 14:46 +0000
      Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-11-13 11:35 -0500
  Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-13 14:56 +0100
    Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-11-13 14:54 +0000
      Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-13 23:14 +0100
    Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-13 20:03 +0000
      Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-11-13 20:12 +0000
        Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-13 22:23 +0100
          Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-11-15 07:25 +1000
            Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-14 22:58 +0100
              Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-14 22:12 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-15 00:00 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-14 23:27 +0000
                fmpeg drift (1) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 00:29 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 00:39 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 03:00 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 02:33 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 15:03 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 21:25 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-17 12:48 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-18 01:00 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (1) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-18 07:22 +0100
                fmpeg drift (2) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 00:34 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-16 13:34 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 15:19 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) - solved? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 23:56 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) - solved? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-17 00:49 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) - solved? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-17 03:17 +0100
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) - solved? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-17 02:39 +0000
                Re: fmpeg drift (2) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 21:21 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2025-11-15 09:50 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-15 22:09 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 00:00 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 00:32 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 03:01 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 02:33 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 23:09 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-16 22:41 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-16 22:45 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2025-11-16 11:32 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-16 00:26 +0100
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-15 02:35 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-15 02:37 +0000
            Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-15 02:33 +0000
              Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-11-16 07:31 +1000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-15 22:08 +0000
                Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-11-17 07:00 +1000
  Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-11-13 18:50 +0000
    Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2025-11-13 19:20 +0000
      Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-13 20:12 +0000
        Re: My 2 favorite tools for reading Linux manual pages the easy way Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-13 23:32 +0000

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