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Re: how far can i go with grotty?
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G. Branden Robinson |
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Re: how far can i go with grotty? |
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Fri, 7 Aug 2020 01:04:14 +1000 |
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Hi Marc,
At 2020-07-24T19:46:21+0200, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> hello roffers,
>
> i wrote this filter
>
> sed '
> 1i.TS\
> tab(:);\
> lB l l l.
> $a.TE
> ' | tbl |groff -kTutf8 | sed '/^$/q'
>
> so i can get readable tables as stdout of my shell scripts. i wrote it
> as a hack but now i'm wondering ...
>
> * I already know (using man command) that groff is good for positioning
> * I just looked at the code of tty.cpp and it
> seems to be able to deal with colors and SGR_REVERSE CSI "7m"
>
> so i wonder if there would be a way to have some text macros to render
> colored and reversed table headers when rendering in a terminal but
> can also be used when i need some pdf docs.
Have a look at the "Example" section of recent versions of the grotty(1)
man page, for instance here:
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/grotty.1.html
You should be able to use tbl(1) and embed escapes in table heading
cells to get the effects you desire. I haven't tried it myself, though
I did write that example.
Let me know if you could use an example.
Regards,
Branden
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