Printing man pages

[Jeff Mings]

Hi all,

This one was really driving me nuts....  Perhaps I can save someone else 
hours of frustration with this story.
I want to print a man page once in a while, or at least print to file so 
I can toss it into a PDA, but everything I tried loses any text that's 
printed in large bold text.  For example, the output of  something like:
groff -Tascii /usr/share/man/man8/iptables.8.gz > iptables.text  will 
lose the entire nine lines between synopsis and description.  Everything 
else that is simple ascii is output.  Even selecting postscript or HTML 
as the output device with the -T parameter results in the same lines 
being lost.
Here's what finally worked (sorry to users of other environments, this 
is a KDE-based solution):
After firing up Konqueror and using the special #-means-a-man-page 
notation, I brought up the man page in question.  For some reason, 
printing it directly to the printer didn't work.  However, if you print 
it to file, you can then print it with a ghostscript viewer.  You can 
also save it as HTML from Konqueror for handy packing in your PDA or 
other HTML-capable device.

-Jeff Mings