[Radiance-general] Printing man pages on a Mac on US-sized paper

[Randolph M. Fritz]

> groff -Tps -P-pletter -mandoc -c `man -w rtcontrib` > t.ps

This also needs a "-dpaper=letter" to get the typography correct; the 
paper size is set in two places, and both have to be touched.

> man -t rtcontrib | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app/

I didn't know that open can accept input from the standard input!  (And 
it's not documented in the general case, only for text files.)  This 
will produce an a4-size page, though.  Preview will stretch and squash 
it for printing.

I think the following command is an improvement on all three methods.  
It creates the typeset document correctly and does not require a change 
to system files.

> groff -Tps -mandoc -c -dpaper=letter -P-pletter `man -w rtcontrib` | 
> open -f -a Preview

Wish this stuff just worked.

Randolph

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