Re: [Groff] How remove title?

[Peng Yu]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Dale Snell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:20:16 -0500, in message
> address@hidden,
> Peng Yu wrote:
>
>> > pdfman < $(man -w ls) | groff -Tpdf -mandoc -c > /tmp/ls.pdf
>>
>> I got this error. Do you know what is wrong?
>>
>> groff: can't find `DESC' file
>> groff:fatal error: invalid device `pdf'
>
> It looks to me like the directory
>
> /usr/{share,local/share}/groff/current/font/devpdf

I am on Mac. I have installed groff using homebrew.

$ ls -lgo $(type -P groff)
lrwxr-xr-x 1 32 Jun 16 11:08 /usr/local/bin/groff ->
../Cellar/groff/1.22.3/bin/groff

Now, I see the following error. What do they mean and how to fix them? Thanks.

$ ./pdfman < $(man -w ls) | groff -Tpdf -mandoc -c > /tmp/ls.pdf
<standard input>:6: can't transparently output node at top level
<standard input>:9: can't transparently output node at top level
<standard input>:13: can't transparently output node at top level
<standard input>:21: can't transparently output node at top level
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> couldn't be found.  Some Linux distributions by default include
> only a very cut-down groff installation, useful only for
> generating man pages for terminal use.  For general-purpose use,
> the entire set of groff packages has to be installed manually.
>
> If you're using a Red Hat system of some sort, it's fairly easy to
> determine how much of groff you've got:
>
>     $ yum list installed groff\*
>
> If that command returns only something like:
>
>     groff-base.x86_64          1.22.2-11.fc21
>
> then all you've got is the minimal, man-page-only installation.
> If you've got the entire thing, you should see:
>
>     groff.x86_64               1.22.2-11.fc21
>     groff-base.x86_64          1.22.2-11.fc21
>     groff-doc.noarch           1.22.2-11.fc21
>     groff-perl.x86_64          1.22.2-11.fc21
>     groff-x11.x86_64           1.22.2-11.fc21
>
> (Note that these packages are from my 64-bit Fedora 21 system.
> Hence the ".x86_64" and ".fc21" fields.)
>
> If you're running a Debian-based system, synaptic or apt can give
> you the same information.  I don't know how to use them, though,
> so I can't provide any examples.
>
> Of course, if you've built your groff directly from sources, you
> can ignore most of what I wrote above.  Except for the part about
> the devpdf directory being missing.  That looks to be your
> immediate problem.
>
> Anyway, I hope this helps.
>
> --Dale
>
> --
> The question of whether computers can think is just like the
> question of whether submarines can swim.
>         -- Edsger W. Dijkstra



-- 
Regards,
Peng