Package: groff-base Version: 1.22.2-5 According to the grotty man page, groff produces SGR sequences by default to set bold and underline attributes for text. But I found that I was not getting this output in manpages, whatever I tried doing. For example, redirecting man's output to a file, the file would contain overstrike sequences for bold and underline. I expected it to contain ECMA-48 SGR sequences instead.
Eventually, I found that an environmental variable GROFF_SGR had to be set to get the documented behaviour. There is a check for this in the "mandoc.local" file added by Debian. The use of this variable should either be removed or documented somewhere a user is likely to look. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
