On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:07:11PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> Reading a bit more, I think we have two possibilities, both abandoning
> the grotty new default behavior of using escape sequences rather than
> overtrikes for emphasis:
>
> 1) Revert to the original behavior (overstrikes). This should be achieved
> by just passing "-c" to grotty ("-P-c") if nothing is explicitely
> passed. Overstrikes are enabled this way, but can be removed by using
> the -f option, just as before. These overstrikes look nicely in mc and in
> less, unlike escapes. No changes in documentation are needed this way.
> 2) Being more agressive, and setting plain text as default, by passing
> "-cbou" to grotty ("-P-cbou") unless something is explicitely passed,
> thus obsoleting the -f option. We need to document this change, and
> how to get the original behavior if desired. Removing old
> oversrike-removal code is also reasonable here.
Since I use vim for reading text, I wasn't fully aware of what it
looked like in less and mc. So I'm now only slightly in favor of
option 2 since then it can be readily read by a text editor like vim
and emacs. So I think that if you don't hear from Sano, it OK to go
with option 1.
> Since the overstrikes look nice in less and mc, I admit my personal
> preference goes to (1), but I am not alone here. Sano?
>
> Agustin
David Lawyer
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