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Date:      Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:08:44 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Coloured manpages (was: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man Makefile.inc src/share/mk bsd.man.mk src/usr.bin/catman catman.c)
Message-ID:  <20021016013843.GP12010@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021015143304.GB12329@sunbay.com>
References:  <200210110916.g9B9GP8f064951@freefall.freebsd.org> <20021012040759.A23338@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20021012155812.GA36832@sunbay.com> <20021013003257.GA64063@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021013081038.GA14919@sunbay.com> <20021015094930.GB2083@hades.hell.gr> <20021015143304.GB12329@sunbay.com>

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On Tuesday, 15 October 2002 at 17:33:04 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> The are three options here:
>
> 1.  Keep the color support turned off for catpages and man(1).
> 2.  Fix the syscons(4) to render underlined attribute in some way
>     distinguishable from "bold".
> 3.  Turn the color support back on but pass the -r option to
>     grotty(1) which tells it to use the "reverse video" attribute
>     to render italic fonts.  This keeps the "cons25" output the
>     old way, but worsens the "xterm" output, which will now render
>     the underlined text as "reverse".

I'm not overly concerned about how nroff renders, but I'd like to see
colour support enabled for troff.  Or is that already the case?  I
can't see any conflict for troff.

Greg
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