Re: [Groff] Re: new grotty format

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 07:34:59AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > I was hoping to get some kind of consensus on the cleanest way to
> > disable SGR system-wide. I initially thought that I should write a patch
> > which created a 'color' number register which would have a similar
> > effect as 'troff -c', so that it could be controlled from man.local and
> > mdoc.local. However, I don't think that 'troff -c' can currently affect
> > how grotty renders the bold and underline fonts.
> 
> grotty also has a `-c' switch to disable SGR.  So you can say
> 
>   groff -Tascii -P-c ...
> 
> Is this what you need?

I noticed that, but unfortunately this would require modifying man, and
would break with older versions of groff.

I'm really looking for something that can go in a configuration file, I
think.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden