Package: man-db Version: 2.11.2-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: witold.bary...@gmail.com
I am tring to dump some formatted man pages (some standard ones, and some generated from Markdown using pandoc), to a file and other program. After setting MANWIDTH=80, and MANPAGER=cat, or PAGER=cat, or -P cat, or pipeing to cat, I lose formatting, like colors, bold, underlines, etc. MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1 makes no difference. It appears one needs to also use GROFF_SGR=1 to make it work, but it is poorly documented in man manpage. Regards, Witold -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.2.0-rc5 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages man-db depends on: ii bsdextrautils 2.38.1-5 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.82 ii groff-base 1.22.4-9 ii libc6 2.36-8 ii libgdbm6 1.23-3 ii libpipeline1 1.5.7-1 ii libseccomp2 2.5.4-1+b3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1 man-db recommends no packages. Versions of packages man-db suggests: ii apparmor 3.0.8-3 ii elinks [www-browser] 0.13.2-1+b4 ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 102.8.0esr-1 ii groff 1.22.4-9 ii konqueror [www-browser] 4:22.12.2-1 ii less 590-1.2 ii links [www-browser] 2.28-1+b1 ii links2 [www-browser] 2.28-1+b1 ii lynx [www-browser] 2.9.0dev.12-1 ii netsurf-gtk [www-browser] 3.10-1+b3 ii surf [www-browser] 2.1+git20221016-4 ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3+git20230121-2 -- debconf information: man-db/auto-update: true man-db/install-setuid: false
