Meg McRoberts wrote: > However, I tried your command line and I now have ^[ characters > in the output in addition to the 0* control characters. I've > inserted the beginning of the formatted page at the end here > for your perusal...
Strange; it works as I would expect, for me -- no sign of an SGR sequence anywhere. You are using a lower case "c" in the "-c" and "-P-c" options, aren't you? Actually, its the "-P-c" option -- that's upper case "P" and lower case "c" -- that's critical; I get indistinguishable output of manpages, with or without "-c", provided I use "-P-c" to tell "grotty" not to emit SGR sequences. BTW, those ^[ characters you are now seeing represent the ASCII ESC code, which is *always* the first in an SGR sequence. If "grotty" is in SGR mode, it will always emit colour control sequences as "^[[...m". Since you weren't seeing the ESC codes in your previous output, I can only conclude that your "col -b" filter was discarding them. HTH. Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
