[Novalug] Printing man pages question

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

  On 11/20/2010 2:14 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:21:53PM -0500, cmhowe at patriot.net wrote:
>> List,
>>
>> I want to have a hard copy of a man page. If, for example, I do
>>
>>    man gedit>gedit-manual
>>
>> then
>>
>>    lpr gedit-manual
>>
>> I get something so unattractive that it is useless. I could edit it but I
>> have a hunch that there is a program to make it attractive. Does anyone
>> know of a program that does that?
> According to the man manpage, the -t option should do what you want.
>
>     man -t gedit>  gedit.ps
>     lp gedit.ps
>
>     man -t gedit | lp
>
> Jon
You are probably right. But I always use "a2ps" to send things to the 
printer:

man whatever | a2ps -m

The -m option processes the data like a manpage. You can also use -2 to 
get two column output in landscape mode
and -s2 to get double sided printing.

JIM