Re: info format - how to print

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Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> In comp.os.linux.misc mkolacki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mkolacki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> hey guys.
>
>> i have just come across the problem to print the information issued on
>> grub.
>
>> no problem with manpages, falied to print 'info grub'.
>
> Err? This is the same procedure you can enter "info:grub" or
> "man:grub" into konqueror "Location" bar and select "Print..." or
> use from the next xterm:
>
> man grub | col -b | a2ps

You would print a man page with

$ man -t manpage | lpr

which would run it through "groff -man -T ps" to correctly transform
it to PostScript. Printing the text output will give inferior
results, since you get plain ASCII nroff output with no formatting.

> info grub | col -b | a2ps

..info is not intended to be printable. It would give you vastly
better quality output if you ran the original .texi source through
tex, and printed that:

[unpack source]
$ cd docs
$ pdftex grub.texi
$ lpr grub.texi [or xpdf grub.texi]

This way you will actually get proper indexes, contents and
pagination, not to mention proper typeset text.


Regards,
Roger

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