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| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile.am | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | build-aux/manconv.sh | 58 |
2 files changed, 66 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 34b49fa7..809197e8 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \ COPYING.LGPLv2.1 \ INSTALL.generic \ PACKAGERS \ + build-aux/manconv.sh \ build-aux/version.sh ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 @@ -64,14 +65,15 @@ dist-hook: $(MKDIR_P) "$$dest/pdf-a4" "$$dest/pdf-letter" "$$dest/txt" && \ for FILE in $(manfiles); do \ BASE=`basename $$FILE .1` && \ - groff -man -t -Tps -P-pa4 < "$(srcdir)/$$FILE" \ - | ps2pdf - - \ + sh "$(srcdir)/build-aux/manconv.sh" pdf a4 \ + < "$(srcdir)/$$FILE" \ > "$$dest/pdf-a4/$$BASE-a4.pdf" && \ - groff -man -t -Tps -P-pletter < "$(srcdir)/$$FILE" \ - | ps2pdf - - \ + sh "$(srcdir)/build-aux/manconv.sh" pdf letter \ + < "$(srcdir)/$$FILE" \ > "$$dest/pdf-letter/$$BASE-letter.pdf" && \ - groff -man -t -Tascii < "$(srcdir)/$$FILE" \ - | col -bx > "$$dest/txt/$$BASE.txt"; \ + sh "$(srcdir)/build-aux/manconv.sh" ascii \ + < "$(srcdir)/$$FILE" \ + > "$$dest/txt/$$BASE.txt"; \ done; \ fi diff --git a/build-aux/manconv.sh b/build-aux/manconv.sh new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e53b0269 --- /dev/null +++ b/build-aux/manconv.sh @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# +############################################################################### +# +# Wrapper for GNU groff to convert man pages to a few formats +# +# Usage: manconv.sh FORMAT [PAPER_SIZE] < in.1 > out.suffix +# +# FORMAT can be ascii, utf8, ps, or pdf. PAPER_SIZE can be anything that +# groff accepts, e.g. a4 or letter. See groff_font(5). PAPER_SIZE defaults +# to a4 and is used only when FORMAT is ps (PostScript) or pdf. +# +# Multiple man pages can be given at once e.g. to create a single PDF file +# with continuous page numbering. +# +############################################################################### +# +# Author: Lasse Collin +# +# This file has been put into the public domain. +# You can do whatever you want with this file. +# +############################################################################### + +FORMAT=$1 +PAPER=${2-a4} + +# Make PostScript and PDF output more readable: +# - Use 11 pt font instead of the default 10 pt. +# - Use larger paragraph spacing than the default 0.4v (man(7) only). +FONT=11 +PD=0.8 + +SED_PD=" +/^\\.TH /s/\$/\\ +.PD $PD/ +s/^\\.PD\$/.PD $PD/" + +case $FORMAT in + ascii) + groff -t -mandoc -Tascii | col -bx + ;; + utf8) + groff -t -mandoc -Tutf8 | col -bx + ;; + ps) + sed "$SED_PD" | groff -dpaper=$PAPER -t -mandoc \ + -rC1 -rS$FONT -Tps -P-p$PAPER + ;; + pdf) + sed "$SED_PD" | groff -dpaper=$PAPER -t -mandoc \ + -rC1 -rS$FONT -Tps -P-p$PAPER | ps2pdf - - + ;; + *) + echo 'Invalid arguments' >&2 + exit 1 + ;; +esac |