On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:08:45PM +0000, Deri James wrote:
>> On Wed 26 Feb 2014 10:19:07 Mike Bianchi wrote:
>> > I cannot find  man.config  or any reference to it in Debian 7.4
>> (wheezy).
> It looks like on debian the answer is to create a shell script called
> "mandb_tfmt" to do exactly what you want when man -t is used.
> Unfortunately my only version of debian is on a sheevaplug which is not
> up to running an X server, but the man page says:-
>
> A formatting pipeline is formed from the filters and the primary
> formatter (nroff or [tg]roff with -t) and executed.
It appears that /etc/manpath.config holds the magic configurations.
Witness:
:
# Program definitions. These are commented out by default as the value
# of the definition is already the default. To change: uncomment a
# definition and modify it.
#
#DEFINE pager pager -s
#DEFINE cat cat
#DEFINE tr tr '\255\267\264\327' '\055\157\047\170'
#DEFINE grep grep
#DEFINE troff groff -mandoc
#DEFINE nroff nroff -mandoc
#DEFINE eqn eqn
#DEFINE neqn neqn
#DEFINE tbl tbl
#DEFINE col col
#DEFINE vgrind vgrind
#DEFINE refer refer
#DEFINE grap grap
#DEFINE pic pic -S
#
#DEFINE compressor gzip -c7
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Mike Bianchi
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