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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting man format file Post 56089 by locustfurnace on Monday 27th of September 2004 09:25:00 PM
Old 09-27-2004
man pages are formatted using troff/groff. You should do a man troff and a man groff.

You can try this agains your txt file, to view it.
groff -Tascii -mm your_file | less

Look at the source from any of the man pages installed.

After formatting the text you can view it in many ways, such as issuing the command against your txt file
nroff -man your_file | less
and even
groff -Tascii -man your_file |less

You can also create various output from your formatted document.
Such as txt, ps, dvi.

groff -Tascii -mm your_file > newfile.txt
groff -Tps -mm your_file > newfile.ps
groff -Tdvi -mm your_file > newfile.dvi

a quick idea you can use to format your text to work with groff.

Quote:
.TH Addressbook 2 Office 9/27/2004 Linux
.SH Addressbook
Something about the address book written here!
.SH Synopsis
.PP
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
How to use the address book
.PP
.SH FILES
/usr/local/bin
.PP
$HOME/.contacts
.SH BUGS
None filed
you can then process this, saving the file to address.2 and issuing;
groff -Tascii -man address.2 | less
Last edited by locustfurnace; 09-27-2004 at 10:53 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9

man

MAN(1)							      General Commands Manual							    MAN(1)

NAME

       man, lookman - print or find pages of this manual

SYNOPSIS

       man [ option ...  ] [ section ...  ] title ...

       lookman key ...

DESCRIPTION

       Man  locates  and prints pages of this manual named title in the specified sections.  Title is given in lower case.  Each section is a num-
       ber; pages marked (2S), for example, belong to chapter 2.  If no section is specified, pages in all sections are printed.   Any	name  from
       the NAME section at the top of the page will serve as a title.

       The options are:

       -p     Run proof(1) on the specified man pages.

       -t     Run troff and send its output to standard output.

       -n     (Default) Print the pages on the standard output using nroff.

       Lookman prints the names of all manual sections that contain all of the key words given on the command line.

FILES

       /sys/man/?/*
	      troff source for manual; this page is /sys/man/1/man

       /sys/man/?/INDEX
	      indices searched to find pages corresponding to titles

       /sys/lib/man/secindex
	      command to make an index for a given section

       /sys/lib/man/lookman/index
	      index for lookman

SOURCE

       /rc/bin/man
       /rc/bin/lookman

SEE ALSO

       proof(1)

BUGS

       The manual was intended to be typeset; some detail is sacrificed on text terminals.
       There is no automatic mechanism to keep the indices up to date.
       Except for special cases, it doesn't recognize things that should be run through tbl and/or eqn.

																	    MAN(1)
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