Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen
On Friday 01 October 2021 17:01:56 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:59:25PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 01 October 2021 12:34:16 Larry Martell wrote:
> >
> > man -t /path/to/man/file >file.txt
> > groff -mandoc /path/to/man/file > file.txt, both quadrupled the size
> > with lots more markup.
> >
> > Not what I want obviously.
>
> There is nothing obvious here. What do you want? Why? What are you
> going to do with the resulting file(s)?
What I wanted on dead tree, was exactly what I see on screen.
With the manpage markup gobbled up, leaving only the text I see on screen
when I type man 9 filename.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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