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Re: [groff] Groff
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [groff] Groff |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Sep 2018 08:55:04 +0100 |
Hi Francis,
John wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
...
> I'd say something's wrong with whatever program you're using to
> display the formatted man-page. What you're seeing is actually the
> correct behaviour for a manpage formatted by grotty(1).
Or, grotty is wrong to assume that hard-coded sequences will be
understood. :-) See mentions of `SGR' in grotty(1) for documentation,
e.g. of the environment variable to disable these codes, and groff's
`-P' option to pass options to the grotty post-processor.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
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