Re: pdfman

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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Hi Michael,

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On 2021-01-06, Michael wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> On 1/5/21 3:05 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> > Hey Michael,
> > 
> > On 1/5/21 1:00 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> >> function pdfman {
> >>     man -Tps -l $1 > /tmp/$(basename $1).$$.ps
> >>     ps2pdf /tmp/$(basename $1).$$.ps $1.pdf
> >>     evince $1.pdf
> >> }

I was wondering why -Tps and then ps2pdf(1) instead of directly -Tpdf.
Do you remember a reason?  We still have the function around (with my
rewrite, but we kept that ps thing), and was wondering if I could
simplify.

Cheers,
Alex

> > 
> > Would you mind adding that to a script in scripts/?
> 
> I'm not convinced it really belongs in there.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael

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