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Re: [Groff] Introduction
From: |
Zvezdan Petkovic |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Introduction |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:47:20 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.4.2i |
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:50:55PM -0600, D. E. Evans wrote:
> The removal of the escape characters, etc., for a compatible output
> with OpenBSD's default, (this would be a configure option). For
> now, I guess a simple note (to the INSTALL file) that man -R needs
> to be set globally to the system profile.
Other people will certainly know about configuration more.
There are several options, though, without changing groff configuration.
1. Set in a user .profile or .login
(or /etc/profile _and_ /etc/csh.login if you want it for the
whole system)
MANPAGER="more -R"
export MANPAGER
or for csh users
setenv MANPAGER "more -R"
(PAGER works also if MANPAGER is not defined [but it is])
I use this solution in my .profile because it doesn't
subtract anything. It only adds value, making my man pager,
more, which is a hard link for less on OpenBSD, understand
colour escapes.
2. Set in a user .profile or .login
(or /etc/profile _and_ /etc/csh.login if you want it for the
whole system)
GROFF_NO_SGR=1
export GROFF_NO_SGR
or for csh users
setenv GROFF_NO_SGR 1
I used this solution initially when I started working with
1.18 version of groff. I abandoned it because it subtracts
value from all possible uses of nroff.
In other words, I wanted it for man pages, but not for other
applications of nroff.
3. In /etc/man.conf on OpenBSD 3.7 there are exactly ten
appearances of /usr/bin/nroff between the lines 19 and 28.
Nine of them use the option -man, and one uses -me.
Replace 'nroff' with 'groff -Tascii -P-c'.
Let me explain. I didn't replace system's groff installation
in /usr/bin, but I did the following experiment:
a) my PATH is already set to use my own installation of
groff-1.19.2 in $HOME/opt/bin.
b) unset MANPAGER
c) unset GROFF_NO_SGR
When I try 'man ImageMagick' now, the output is
garbled because /etc/man.conf calls
/usr/bin/nroff (version 1.15), which calls
grotty (found in my path; version 1.19.2).
d) cp /etc/man.conf ~/
e) edit it as described above (only $HOME/opt/bin/groff
instead of /usr/bin/groff because of my setup)
Now, try
man -C ~/man.conf ImageMagick
and it works like a charm.
The conclusion: if I put this changed man.conf in
/etc/man.conf it will work for the whole system under the
condition that groff-1.19.2 is first in everybody's PATH.
That should be true if you installed it over the original
system files.
I just got this idea, noticing that I used such options on a
personal document I needed in PDF, HTML, and ASCII text. To
produce ASCII text I passed options to groff (this is from my
Makefile):
GROFFTEXTOPTS ?= ${GROFFOPTS} -Tascii -P-bcou
Of these, -P-bcou are passed to grotty to avoid making any
extra output. Neither the colour escapes, nor the old
overstriking to produce bold and underline.
Just plain ASCII.
Of interest here is -c only, because we do want overstriking
for the old style man pages.
Thus, the benefit of this third approach, in comparison to 1.
above is that you get the old style man pages if you prefer
them. The benefit in comparison to 2. above is that you get
the new groff/nroff behaviour for other applications that are
not related to man pages.
Obviously, I chose 1. for my personal use, but for the use on the
system level, you can pick whichever you find the most suitable.
> Perhaps Zvezdan could clarify how this was done under
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff (of the OpenBSD source) with 1.15?
> (Or was this a change made with a newer edition of groff?)
This one is easy and short.
Nothing was changed, because this feature was made default in 1.18.
Best regards,
Zvezdan Petkovic
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, (continued)
Re: [Groff] Introduction, D. E. Evans, 2005/10/17
Re: [Groff] Introduction, D. E. Evans, 2005/10/17
Re: [Groff] Introduction, D. E. Evans, 2005/10/17
Re: [Groff] Introduction, D. E. Evans, 2005/10/18
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Meg McRoberts, 2005/10/18
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/10/18
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Ted Harding, 2005/10/18
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Meg McRoberts, 2005/10/18
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/10/18
- Re: [Groff] Introduction, Meg McRoberts, 2005/10/18
Re: [Groff] Introduction, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/10/18