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colonel_hack@yahoo.com

> troff/groff/nroff and/or friends format man pages for display on ascii 
> (and other) terminals and printing.

  Tinkering with groff now.

> I think (la)tex can be told that the printer can only handle fixed width 
> fonts, including the spacing,

  Wow, never would have though. Any hint about how to do it?
 
> Another thought is to markup with html, use a text browser like lynx to 
> format and print (to a printer or file).

  Can lynx (or any other text browser) save a page just the  way
  it "sees" it? Copy-past does the trick?