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Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 24 Jun 2016 16:28:34 -0500
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On 06/24/2016 03:30 PM, Ken Teh wrote:
> Does anyone know enough groff to help me print this man page?
>
>
> # man -t firewall-cmd > /tmp/firewall-cmd.ps
> <standard input>:397: warning [p 4, 4.4i]: can't break line
> <standard input>:434: warning [p 4, 6.8i]: can't break line
> <standard input>:446: warning [p 4, 7.9i]: can't break line
> error: page 11: table will not fit on one page; use .TS H/.TH with a
> supporting macro package

I haven't tried generating a postscript in a while, but there is a 
man2html that does a pretty decent job.  Unfortunately it doesn't like 
gzipped man pages it seems, so it might be easiest to copy the 
firewall-cmd.1.gz (or whatever section it is) to /tmp, gunzip it, then 
run man2html on it.  You could also get fancy with 'man' options and 
piping things together if you want.

Digging in an old conversion script I have, I have done:
groff -mandoc source_file > dest_file.ps

The default is ps output, so it looks like the same command as your 'man 
-t'.

Experience from compiling docbook/xml contents, the warnings/errors you 
are seeing are familiar.  Rewriting an entire table structure just to 
get a postscript seems a waste of time.

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