On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:47:31PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 06 April 2014 06:54:53 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > $ man dmesg
> 
> $ man dmesg > text.txt

That produces the same result. IOW 'man dmesg' and 'man dmesg >
text.txt' followed by 'less text.txt' is no different.

> You will get a text file that you can read properly, and even change 
> the font if you want to.

Ahh!, so you can open text.txt in a word processor?

Have you seen:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch11.en.html#_pretty_print_a_manual_page

e.g.

man -Tps dmesg > file.ps

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