Re: [groff] improve a few terminal renderings of special characters

[John Gardner]

I'm afraid you lost me at several parts of your email, mate... I'm not very
good at putting up what people are putting down, so to speak, so harsh,
tactless honesty has  always had a way of getting through to me the best.
;-)


On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 at 00:06, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> > All thinks considered, I'm wondering if I shouldn't just write my own
> > man(1) implementation in pure JavaScript... I mean, I can't possibly
> > imagine it to be hard...
>
> Humour aside, you seem to be mixing two things: front and back end.
>
> Back end, you've a `device' that renders to an HTML Canvas, in a similar
> manner to -TX100, and gxditview(1).  groff and
> http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/ offer options to kick-off gxditview for
> display.  man-db will also open a local file in a browser for HTML
> output.  Fitting in alongside those would leave the user with his
> familiar tools.
>
> Front end, you're aiming at a documentation browser and so want to find
> man-page sources, etc?  I think this is less novel and users would enjoy
> an integrated back-end more, and prefer it first.
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
> https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
>
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