Re:Twm − Tab Window Manager for the X Window System
by jeffbee on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:53PM
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Of course, there is not a reason why the manual page cannot have images and figures. The whole PIC language exists to put diagrams into things like ?roff, and it was at one time de rigueur to format the manual pages to postscript and send them to the printer. It was also common in later times to generate PS or DVI output and view that with the appropriate viewer. Honestly viewing the manual pages with a plain text pager is the new, worse-is-better method.
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Re:Twm − Tab Window Manager for the X Window System
by alexjm on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:38PM
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Most man pages give good PostScript output with "man -t". I like reading those on screen or occasionally printing manuals I refer to frequently. The main problem I've run into in recent years are man pages that use ASCII art but don't wrap that in explicit roff requests for a fixed-width font, making the result mostly unreadable outside the terminal.