Manual pages: not just for the console anymore
You probably know about man, and how to read manual pages in the console. But did you know that man can display manual pages many other ways, such as in a browser, or in a printer-friendly form?
Manual pages use a typesetting format called roff (specifically, the man macros) to include some semantic structure to a document. This structure defines paragraphs, lists, headings, and manual page metadata. For more information on this format, read man 7 man.
Debian uses a Free Software implementation of roff from the GNU project, called groff.
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Not sure if a manual page does what you need? Want to read the manual page first, before installing it? Use debman, from the debian-goodies package.
debman extracts manual pages from a Debian package and displays them with man.
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