xorg-docs-1.2 - human readable text mode docs?

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Mon Jun 12 09:18:18 PDT 2006


On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Aivils Stoss wrote:

> 	Is possible to format classic texts like xorg-docs-1.2/specs/X11
> as normal text? I tried various
> man ./CH01

It is not "man" nor mandoc format.

> groff -T ascii ./CH01
> but result is not satisfactory. Shipped Makefile will make hardcopy
> only as PS files. Postscript format is not easy to read and parse.
> make html
> make info
> make install-info
> will produce nothing.

Manually use tbl and nroff with ms macro, like:

tbl ./util/macros.t specs/Xt/CH01 | nroff -ms - | less

(Works for me.)


 Jeremy C. Reed

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