Re: [Groff] plain ascii w/o control chars

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

>>>>> "Werner" == Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

Werner>    groff -Tlatin1 -P-b -P-u ...

Interesting.  The -u eliminates the _^H as expected, but the -b is not
as effective.  Here is a part of a udiff (via cat --show-all):

        -N^HN^HN^HNA^HA^HA^HAM^HM^HM^HME^HE^HE^HE$
        +N^HNA^HAM^HME^HE$

Ie, it reduces bold from quad-strike to double-strike.

The above line is from:

.SH "NAME"

in the manpage src.

I had to add -o to the grotty options to eliminate ^H from the output.

So it looks line an-old.tmac is doing more than .ft B for .SH.

(BTW, if an-old.tmac is a suse-ism, then it would be the same as the
an.tmac from the original groff dist; in that case their an.tmac does
the same thing as andoc.tmac.)

-JimC