Re: [Groff] color support in grotty

[Rick Richardson]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:33:25AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> Finally, here it is!
> 
> I've finished color support in grotty and committed it to the CVS.
> SGR escape sequences will be the new default.  At the same time, I've
> added two new options to nroff.
> 
>     Enjoy!

Hey, my nasty linuxtrade manual page with all of my curses screendumps
*magically* comes out in full color now!  WOW!  Good job.

There is only one bit of ickiness. It isn't your fault and I will have
to fix it myself.

The program itself and the screendumps call out for curses color
COLOR_YELLOW.  But yellow on any of my xterms isn't yellow at all,
rather, its most decidedly a medium orange.  To make the manual page
look exactly like what you see on the screen using the "grops"
postprocessor, I defined strings that set the foreground/background
colors, and for the case of "yellow", the screendump output maps that
to orange:

        .ds yel \m[orange]
        .ds Yel \M[orange]

This works great for "grops", but doesn't work for "grotty" which ignores
color "orange".

I think the philosophically correct fix is for me to conditionally
define the yel/Yel strings to be \m[yellow] and \M[yellow] if the
postprocessor is "grotty" (even though they will still come out orange
on an xterm) and \m[orange] and \M[orange] for all other postprocessors.

-Rick

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