What's the easy way to convert all man pages to html? Sixteen years into the 21st century I remain baffled that we still have to go out of our way if we want to see a man page


rendered in a proportional font (that is, not Courier or similar)
with links to other referenced pages


There are tantalizing web sites with HTML man pages that have links, like this, but I haven't found such a site with pages updated for the current version of macOS. And of course a web site won't show man pages for software you've installed via Homebrew, etc.

Is there a solution to this problem? I've looked and looked. This

function manp {
  man -t "$1" | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app/
}


renders a page and shows it in Preview (after you wait for a PostScript interpreter to convert it to PDF), but you don't get live links.

The man page for man says:


  HTML PAGES
  
  Man will find HTML pages if they live in directories named as expected to be ".html", thus a valid name for an HTML version of the ls(1) man page would be /usr/share/man/htmlman1/ls.1.html.


I could write a script to convert all of the man pages everywhere on my system to HTML, but I bet someone has already done this. And I bet they have also solved the problem of rendering SEE ALSO references as links, which the man command apparently doesn't do.
Install Bwana which allows you to browse the man pages in your favourite browser.

To quote the page above "Just type "man:" followed by the man page you're looking for into your browser's URL field. Hit enter and let Bwana do the rest." It has live links.