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PROGRAM:

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/share/man/man2
$ bookman -p -t 'Unix Reference Manual' * >book.pdf

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