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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: groff -ms -Tascii (nroff?) strange output
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On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:17:16PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>=20
> > BUZI> groff -ms -Tascii try.1 | more
> >=20
> >                          ESC[1mSome titleESC[0m
> >=20
> > How can I get a plain text rendering
> > from a troff document with ms macros?
>=20
> With nroff, use the -c flag:
>=20
>   nroff -ms -c -Tascii
>=20
> The groff frontend has a more convoluted syntax for it:
>=20
>   groff -ms -P -c -Tascii

setting the environment variable GROFF_NO_SGR is simpler and doesn't
appear to cause problems - "man grotty" is the place to look.

--=20
Thomas E. Dickey
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