Thread: [*nix] Convert man pages to EPUB?
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Old 10-20-2024, 06:36 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Shohreh View Post
Hello,

To read long man pages on an e-reader, what application would you recommend to convert those to an epub file?
I wouldn't use an application per se. I also wouldn't use pandoc.

Unix man pages use a markup format called roff (runoff) inherited from Multics. I would use groff (or troff) to render the manpage source as HTML:

zcat /usr/share/man/man1/groff.1.gz | groff -mandoc -Thtml > groff.html

Then use ebook-convert to turn that HTML into an ePub. This should generate a nicely formatted ePub.
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