This is embarrassingly simple, but useful.

    manps()
    {
     if [ -z "$1" ]; then
      echo usage: $FUNCNAME topic
      echo This will open a PostScript formatted version of the man page for \'topic\'.
     else
      man -t $1 | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app
     fi
    }

This is for MacOS. All it does is display a `man` entry as properly formatted Postscript. If you were around in the 80's when we had ring-bound paper manuals, you may remember how much easier they were to read as compared with fixed-pitch terminal rendering of the same page.

Sorry, no Linux version as I rarely have a graphical desktop open on Linux. It should be easy to rig something up with Ghostscript or similar.