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Date:      Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:57:01 +0200
From:      Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: weekly_catman not generating the right result?
Message-ID:  <20110731135700.GC11991@acme.spoerlein.net>
In-Reply-To: <4E354DFB.1020206@delphij.net>
References:  <4E3510CC.8090300@delphij.net> <20110731121732.GB11991@acme.spoerlein.net> <4E354DFB.1020206@delphij.net>

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On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 05:43:39 -0700, Xin LI wrote:
> On 07/31/11 05:17, Ulrich Sp=C3=B6rlein wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 01:22:36 -0700, Xin LI wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>=20
> >> I just noticed that weekly_catman is not generating the right
> >> result, e.g. instead of a highlight NAME, it gives 1mNAME0m (looks
> >> like the escape character is missing here).
> >>=20
> >> Is this a known issue?
> >=20
> > Now it is :)
> >=20
> > This is due to the recent changes that made groff emit ANSI
> > sequences and catman(1) is still putting col(1) in the pipe, which is
> > not really required and gobbles up part of the escape sequences.
> >=20
> > Please try the attached patch. Thanks.
>=20
> Thanks, that fixes the problem.
>=20
> Note that I noticed that setting PAGER to less won't work.  Looking at
> my 8.2-RELEASE system, the rendered catpages are using ^H when
> highlighting while on -CURRENT it's an escape sequence (but I didn't see
> any change to nroff script nor catman itself)...

The change that did this is r222648. You'll need to use `less -Rs' as
your PAGER/MANPAGER (or export LESS=3D-Rs).

It's debatable if we want catpages to retain the old way of marking up
bold and underlined text.

Ruslan: bsd.doc.mk was told to not use SGR in r222647, does it make
sense to do the same for catpages?

Uli

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