...-labs.com Subject: Re: [9fans] troff -man prints poorly Date: Tue, 26 Feb...> I've been writing a man page and wanted to see how...> but not when I do: troff -ms /sys/doc/asm.ms |...something simple and fundamental, or is troff/dpost just broken? John /sys/lib/tmac.an (troff -man) loads the LucidaSans fonts: ...look ugly. (/sys/lib/tmac.s (troff -ms) doesn't load fonts (...

...labs.com Subject: Re: [9fans] troff -man prints poorly Date: Tue, 26 ... 13:36:53 -0500 troff -man /sys/man/1/cat | page Looks good. troff -man /sys/man/1/cat | lp -dPrinter Looks ... help match the output of troff to the input your printer ... piece of the mkfile) and print that. %%.ps:DQ: %%.ms eval ...m.9 -dstdout $target %%.ps:DQ: %%.man eval `{doctype $home/lib/macros....

....bell-labs.com Subject: [9fans] troff -man prints poorly Date: Tue, 26 Feb ... I've been writing a man page and wanted to see how ...printed, so I tried: troff -man <file> | dpost | lp only to find that ... but not when I do: troff -ms /sys/doc/asm.ms | ...missing something simple and fundamental, or is troff/dpost just broken? John troff -man /sys/man/1/cat | page troff...

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote: troff -ms bla.ms|lp -dstout| aux/download -H/sys/lib/postscript/font -mfontmat|lp -H -d printername That has the same end result for me as just doing troff -man foo | lp Yes, it would. However, if you spell fontmap right, it should work. Also the -H option is doing anything here -- ...

...> That has the same end result for me as just doing troff -man foo | lp Yes, it would. However, if you spell fontmap... anything here -- that directory is already the default. cpu%% troff -man /sys/man/1/cat | lp -dstdout | aux/download -mfontmat | wc 849 2474 15261 cpu%% troff -man /sys/man/1/cat | lp -dstdout | aux/download -mfontmap |wc 4337 7366 268301 cpu%% Russ

....edu) wrote: I've been writing a man page and wanted to see how it looks when formatted with troff and printed, so I tried: troff -man <file> | dpost | lp only to find that the printout was ...| dpost | lp but not when I do: troff -ms /sys/doc/asm.ms | dpost | lp ... Am I missing something simple and fundamental, or is troff/dpost just broken? John

...edu> wrote: I've been writing a man page and wanted to see how it looks when formatted with troff and printed, so I tried: troff -man <file> | dpost | lp only to find that the printout ... | lp but not when I do: troff -ms /sys/doc/asm.ms | dpost | ... I missing something simple and fundamental, or is troff/dpost just broken? I normally do: ...

> troff -man /sys/man/1/cat | page Looks good. troff -man /sys/man/1/cat | lp -dPrinter Looks terrible.

...edu> wrote: I've been writing a man page and wanted to see how it looks when formatted with troff and printed, so I tried: troff -man <file> | dpost | lp only to find that the printout was... | lp but not when I do: troff -ms /sys/doc/asm.ms | dpost | ... I missing something simple and fundamental, or is troff/dpost just broken? I normally do: troff -...

I've been writing a man page and wanted to see how it looks when formatted with troff and printed, so I tried: troff -man <file> | dpost | lp only to find that the ...the same thing happens when I do: troff -man /sys/man/1/cat | dpost | lp but not when I do: troff -ms /sys/doc/asm.ms | dpost |...Am I missing something simple and fundamental, or is troff/dpost just broken? John