Re: [Groff] Escape characters in -man output

[Meg McRoberts]

Thanks, Jorgen, I had missed this -- I'm not technical enough
to recognize that these *m strings were SGR.  However, I just
tried adding -c and -C to my groff line and I still have the
same thing.  Here's my command line:

groff -mandoc -stC -Tlatin1 tmsplx.xml.5 | col -b > catman/tmsplx.xml.5

Apologies if I am just being dense -- I grew up roff'ing in places
where we had professional tools people who dealt with this stuff.
Sigh.  Those were the days...

I did try -st -C just in case -- the man page looks like the C option
should be combined with -st but I thought it was worth trying.

meg

--- Jörgen Grahn <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed Jul  6 15:33:19 2005, address@hidden wrote:
> > I'm getting escape characters in my -man output -- the 0m
> > stuff.  I googled and it isn't just me:
> > 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-groff/2003-03/msg00000.html
> > 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-groff/2002-08/msg00092.html
> > 
> > http://www.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug/2003-March/015970.html
> > 
> > I'm running version 1.19 that came bundled with Mandrake 10.1.
> > I can send details but it looks like this is an old problem --
> > is there a fix and/or work-around (other than a sed script that
> > strips this stuff out of the file)?
> 
> Isn't this the stuff documented in groff's NEWS file?
> Quoting under 1.18, Grotty:
> 
>   SGR escape sequences are now used by default for underlining and bold
>   printing also, no longer using the backspace character trick.  To revert
>   to the old behaviour, use the `-c' switch.
> 
> The same text also suggests how to make it work with less(1) and man(1),
> and that the environment variable GROFF_NO_SGR reverts to the old way of
> bolding and underlining (with ^H).
> 
> I assume some Linux distributions never did the necessary changes to man,
> less and their setups to make this work.  For what it's worth, Debian
> Gnu/Linux (which I use) chose to disable the feature in groff instead:
> 
>   Disable the new ANSI colour/bold/underline escapes in nroff mode, because
>   most pagers either fail to cope with it or need special options to do so.
> 
> /Jörgen
> 
> -- 
>   // Jörgen Grahn       "Koka lopplummer, bada Ross, loppor borta."
> \X/ <address@hidden>                                   -- Jonas
> 
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