bookman
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Updated: 21 March 2007
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NAME
bookman - Generate a book from man pages
SYNOPSIS
bookman [-pPxn] [-o outfile] [-a author] [-d date] [-r release]
[-t title] [-v volume] [-c coverfile] [manfile]
DESCRIPTION
bookman compiles a set of man pages files specified by manfile
arguments, or if no manfile is given, filenames are read from standard
input.
OPTIONS
- -p
-
PDF output format.
- -P
-
Postscript output format.
- -x
-
X11 previewing, using gxditview(1).
- -n
-
no format, output is direct gtroff intermediate format.
- -o outfile
-
Output in file outfile. Default is standard output.
- -a author
-
Set the author, on the cover page.
- -d date
-
Set the date on the cover page.
- -r release
-
Set the book name and release on the cover page.
- -t title
-
Set the title on the cover page.
- -v volume
-
Specify the name of the volume.
- -c coverfile
-
Uses the file coverfile to generate the cover page,
i.e. all pages preceding the table of content. coverfile
must be in groff_ms(7) format.
EXAMPLE
To build a reference manual from section 2 man, do:
$ cd /usr/man/man2
$ bookman -p -t 'Unix Reference Manual' * >book.pdf
SEE ALSO
man(1), mandoc(7), groff_ms(7), groff(1), troff(1), grops(1),
gxditview(1), ps2pdf(1).
AUTHOR
Marc Vertes <mvertes@free.fr>