Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:10:38 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, 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: <20021013081038.GA14919@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20021013003257.GA64063@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200210110916.g9B9GP8f064951@freefall.freebsd.org> <20021012040759.A23338@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20021012155812.GA36832@sunbay.com> <20021013003257.GA64063@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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--Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:02:57AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 12 October 2002 at 18:58:12 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:07:59AM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > >> 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 xterm= s. > >> 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 w3mm= an > >> [|-....o > >> > > I think you have not understand the problem. Under xterm, the underlin= ed > > mode just works, so there is no problem running > > > > nroff -man /usr/src/bin/cat/cat.1 |less -R > > > > But try the same under "cons25", and see how "file ..." is rendered in > > the SYNOPSIS. >=20 > I've been waiting for groff 1.18 exactly because of the colour > support. I can understand that it's a nuisance under the > circumstances you describe, but I would be disappointed to see it > turned off altogether. There must be some way to just not make it the > default. Or is that what you're doing? >=20 Yes. I've sent the patch for grotty(1) that allows it to use the "reverse video" attribute to render the italic font in the nroff mode. After this is accepted (and I'm sure it will be), I plan to import the patch and turn the color support back on. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9qSp+Ukv4P6juNwoRAmN6AJsFw7mTT8CW8wmUO4q5YosyWq8rcQCeJTdr cLdazdJ5sKvsEw5NgC38rh8= =DyOl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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