On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:53:24AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > .if n \{\
> > . \" Debian: Map \(oq to ' rather than ` in nroff mode for devices other
> > . \" than utf8.
> > . if !'\*[.T]'utf8' \
> > . tr \[oq]'
> > .
> > . \" Debian: Disable the use of SGR (ANSI colour) escape sequences by
> > . \" grotty.
> > . if '\V[GROFF_SGR]'' \
> > . output x X tty: sgr 0
> > .
> > . \" Debian: Map \- to the Unicode HYPHEN-MINUS character, to make
> > . \" searching in man pages easier.
> > . if '\*[.T]'utf8' \
> > . char \- \N'45'
> > .\}
>
> Both /etc/groff/man.local & /etc/groff/mdoc.local do have the above
> macros, but that is all they have.
Indeed, that's correct.
> > There are other ways: setting GROFF_NO_SGR=1 in the environment is a
> > simple one, or causing your pager to accept ANSI SGR escapes (less will
> > do so if given the -R option, for instance). The above is probably the
> > best fix until everything that accepts groff output has been fixed,
> > though.
>
> Thats the 'fix' I (now) remember reading. I have added that to
> .bash_profile, sourced bash_profile, and the control chars persist
>
> > By the way, if you're actually printing man pages to paper (I'm not sure
> > from your post if you mean printing to screen or printing to paper),
> > consider using the -t option to man to generate PostScript output.
>
> Sorry, the pages display (to the screen) fine but I am unable to print
> (to the printer) without them looking like ^[[1mNAME^[[0m
Neither this nor your answer above is supposed to happen. Could you tell
me exactly what you're doing so that I can try to reproduce it?
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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