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Re: [groff] improve a few terminal renderings of special characters
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John Gardner |
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Re: [groff] improve a few terminal renderings of special characters |
Date: |
Sun, 2 Sep 2018 21:14:26 +1000 |
*> This is an excellent resource that I hadn't seen before.*
I was wondering why I hadn't seen this before either. I wished I'd found it
earlier.
It isn't included in OpenBSD's source tree, nor is it present in the
system's documentation. Is there any reason for this?
*> IME `catman' pages are dying out, deservedly.*
Glad to hear this. Hopefully they perish soon. :-)
On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 at 20:50, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
> Colin wrote:
> > Ingo wrote:
> > > http://mandoc.bsd.lv/man/man.options.1.html#l
> >
> > This is an excellent resource that I hadn't seen before.
>
> Hear hear.
>
> However, I found it hard to interpret and so read the fine description
> at the top of the page. Even then, the presentation in firefox 61.0.2-1
> misleads because a larger vertical gap separates related functional
> description from the following programs than those programs from the
> next description.
>
> ┌ -l spool the output
> │
> │
> └ groff: probably before groff-0.4 (before July 14, 1990)
>
> ┌ interpret arguments as file names
> │
> │
> ├ man: before man-2.2a7 (before Nov 16, 1994), OpenBSD 5.7 (Aug 30,
> 2014)
> │
> │
> └ apropos, whatis, mandoc: OpenBSD 5.7 (Aug 30, 2014)
>
> ┌ do not trim output to the terminal width
> │
> │
> └ apropos, whatis: man-db (Aug 19, 2007)
>
> ┌ only parse NAME sections
> │
> │
> └ makemandb: NetBSD (Feb 7, 2012)
>
> ┌ legacy mode: search Nm,Nd, no context or formatting
> │
> │
> └ apropos: NetBSD (March 29, 2013)
>
> ┌ list all manual pages matching name within the search path
> │
> │
> └ man: illumos, Solaris 9-11
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
> https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
>
>
Re: [groff] improve a few terminal renderings of special characters, Colin Watson, 2018/09/02