The printed output of the BSD 3.4 manuals for the first UNIX system I used (other than for playing BSD games as a kid) always had a certain fascination for me. Several large 3-ring binders comprising the sections of the manual, Postscript printed from their troff sources.
Note that you can still do this with manpages:
man -Tps bash > /tmp/bash.ps
Or if you prefer PDF output:
man -Tps bash | ps2pdf - > /tmp/bash.pdf
... not that this addresses the content of the manpages, as you note. But at least you can decide on the format.
Note that you can still do this with manpages:
Or if you prefer PDF output: ... not that this addresses the content of the manpages, as you note. But at least you can decide on the format.