nroff
Vidiot
brown at vidiot.UUCP
Fri Jun 1 12:31:07 AEST 1990
In article <14 at astph.UUCP> joe at astph.UUCP (Joe Broniszewski) writes:
<From time to time I get sources from the net and compile them on
<my machine. Many times these sources send documemtation in
<a form that nroff can understand. I try to print out these
<documents with the switchs -man, -ms, etc. that came with
<nroff, but they don't work on all documents. I don't understand
<nroff well enough to figure out a solution to this problem. Is
<there a standard filter to pass some of these manual pages through?
<Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Many documents do not translate well under nroff. They really want to
be printed like books, using troff (or a form there-of). Using troff
will allow for typeset quality documents.
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