After 15 years, I recommend closing this bug as "wontfix". The traditional output mode only makes sense for overstriking terminals, of which there are vanishingly few that aren't paper terminals, which are themselves a dead breed.
The virtue of "ANSI escapes" is that they're actually standardized in ISO 6429. Moreover, they are known to be widely supported in many hardware terminals and emulators. For those with truly "dumb" terminals, "grotty -cbou" is probably a good invocation to learn. It can be passed through from groff with the option "-P-cbou". For example: groff -Tascii -t -man -P-cbou ./build/tmac/groff_man.7 | more The grotty(1) man page in groff 1.22.4 is significantly improved over past versions, and the one forthcoming in groff 1.23.0 will be even better[1]. I would appreciate knowing if the "-cbou" trick is worth explicitly calling out there. I use it for groff regression tests, but I don't know how many other people would have any use for it. Regards, Branden [1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/grotty.1.html
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