Re: [SLUG] Latex and man pages

[Michael Lake <Mike.Lake@nospam.uts.edu.au>]

Hi All,

John Ferlito wrote:
> Is there a nice way to include man pages in latex so they get formatted nicely? 
> Something similar to the way lgrind formats C files.

Not quite sure what you really need to do but this may help.
'man man' says...

   -t     Use  /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc to format the
man<AD>
              ual page, passing the output to stdout.  The
output
              from  /usr/bin/groff  -Tps  -mandoc  may need
to be
              passed through some filter or another before 
being
              printed.

This produces Postscript which can be viewed with Ghostview.
You can manipulate it with mpage or the psutils package.
Then if you need to, that ps file can be included in your
LaTeX file with \includegraphics{my_manpage.ps}. 
Alternatively use groff and set the output device to dvi
with '-Tdvi'. 

Mike

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