bookman

bookman(1)                                                          bookman(1)



NAME
       bookman - Generate a book from man pages

SYNOPSIS
       bookman [\fB-pPxn] [-o outfile] [-a author] [-d date] [-r release]
       [\fB-t title] [-c coverfile] [manfile]

DESCRIPTION
       bookman  compiles  a  set of man pages files specified by manfile argu-
       ments, or if no manfile is given,  filenames  are  read  from  standard
       input.

OPTIONS
       \fB-p  PDF output format.

       \fB-P  Postscript output format.

       \fB-x  X11 previewing, using gxditview(1).

       \fB-n  no format, output is direct gtroff intermediate format.

       \fB-o outfile
              Output in file outfile. Default is standard output.

       \fB-a author
              Set the author, on the cover page.

       \fB-d date
              Sets the date on the cover page.

       \fB-r release
              Sets the release on the cover page.

       \fB-t title
              Sets the title on the cover page.

       \fB-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:

           $ bookman -p -t 'Unix Reference Manual' /usr/man/man2/* >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 AT free.fr>



txt2man-1.5.1                  October 27, 2006                     bookman(1)