Re: [Groff] color support in grotty

[Bernd Warken]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:26:13AM -0600, Rick Richardson wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
On ttys, yellow has always been quite dark.  The normal yellow is 
implemented as "bright yellow".  

Usually, there are problems with redefining yellow, but as groff input is 
intended to be device-independent a correct color translation seems to be 
wanted.

Bernd Warken