Setting dpost as default filter for troff
2007-12-25 11:33:00
replies. Here's what they suggested:
Chris Marble <cmarble@orion.ac.hmc.edu> wrote:
I've always just done "man whatever | col -b | lp"
mwang@tech.cicg.ml.com (Michael Wang) wrote:
Forget all about tbl/eqn/troff/dpost stuff, use groff.
The one I ended up using is from anders@hmi.de (Thomas Anders) who wrote:
setenv TCAT /usr/lib/lp/postscript/dpost
With TCAT set, I can do a "man -t whatever|lpr" and have everything nicely
formatted, paginated correctly, boldface where bold should be... etc.
Thanks all.
Thomas.
ORIGINAL QUESTION
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Howdy folks. Been thru the archive and docs.sun.com without finding the answer
so I thought I'd ask on the list.
Right now, I'm doing...
tbl /usr/man/man1/zcat.1 | eqn | troff -man -Tpost | dpost | lp
if I want a formatted print copy of the man pages. If I can set troff to use
dpost as the default, I can then simply do a "man -t zcat" instead. (right now,
the output is just troff code, not PS) Does anyone know how one goes about
setting the default filter for troff? Thanks in advanced.
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