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bookman - Generate a book from man pages

Author

       Marc Vertes <mvertes@free.fr>

txt2man-1.7.1                                    10 October 2022                                      bookman(1)

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.

Environment

SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
              Unix timestamp that is used for date in header instead of current date.

Example

       To build a reference manual from section 2 man, do:

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

Name

bookman - Generate a book from man pages

Options

-p     PDF output format.

       -P     Postscript output format.

       -x     X11 previewing, using gxditview(1).

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

       -ooutfile
              Output in file outfile. Default is standard output.

       -aauthor
              Set the author, on the cover page.

       -ddate
              Set the date on the cover page.

       -rrelease
              Set the book name and release on the cover page.

       -ttitle
              Set the title on the cover page.

       -vvolume
              Specify the name of the volume.

       -ccoverfile
              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.

See Also

man(1), mandoc(7), groff_ms(7), groff(1), troff(1), grops(1), gxditview(1), ps2pdf(1).

Synopsis

bookman [-pPxn] [-ooutfile] [-aauthor] [-ddate] [-rrelease]
       [-ttitle] [-vvolume] [-ccoverfile] [manfile]

See Also