From owner-cvs-all Fri Oct 11 20: 8: 3 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A85137B401; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:08:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chiark.greenend.org.uk (chiark.greenend.org.uk [212.135.138.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C429843E6A; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:08:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fanf@chiark.greenend.org.uk) Received: from fanf by chiark.greenend.org.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 180CdD-0007hv-00 (Debian); Sat, 12 Oct 2002 04:07:59 +0100 Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 04:07:59 +0100 From: Tony Finch To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man Makefile.inc src/share/mk bsd.man.mk src/usr.bin/catman catman.c Message-ID: <20021012040759.A23338@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <200210110916.g9B9GP8f064951@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200210110916.g9B9GP8f064951@freefall.freebsd.org>; from ru@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:16:24AM -0700 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:16:24AM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > So turn off the color support for now (when generating catpages), > until we figure out what do we do with this new feature. I have > a patch for grotty(1) that tells it to use the "reverse video" > attribute to render the italic font. Once this is accepted, we > can turn color support back on (if there won't be any objections > from the community). I much prefer the current lack of use of reverse video by man in xterms. If it were introduced it would do grievous harm to readability. I much prefer the idea of colour -- in fact here's a gratuitous plug for w3mman [|-....o Other horrid things that FreeBSD might acquire via groff from Linux mandb include formatting text to the width of the terminal rather than a legible width < 80 characters. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch http://dotat.at/ THAMES DOVER WIGHT: SOUTHEASTERLY VEERING NORTHWESTERLY 4 OR 5, INCREASING 5 TO 7 FOR A TIME. RAIN THEN SHOWERS. MODERATE BECOMING GOOD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message