X-Google-Thread: f996b,9179d4b6546e4b1e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s21.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: References: <20080228121204.X59213@egads.ronnet.moc> Subject: Re: Text editor Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: nospam@geniegate.com (Jamie) Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.202.32.119 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s21 1204325074 12.202.32.119 (Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:44:34 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:44:34 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:44:34 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com alt.ascii-art:5305 In , Anton mentions: >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? Sure. I did a wrapper around it: finger hillaryclinton@weird.podro.com finger ronpaul@weird.podro.com I figure ascii people can appreciate the linkage between 'finger' and this new-fangled "myspace" heheh (You'll want to pipe the output into less or something, it's not 80 column) Jamie -- http://www.geniegate.com Custom web programming Perl * Java * UNIX User Management Solutions