From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 15 19:42: 1 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 87CDF37B401; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:42:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A561E43E6A; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:41:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 61A0F812F5; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:11:56 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:11:56 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Alexey Dokuchaev Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , Ruslan Ermilov , Giorgos Keramidas , Tony Finch , 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: <20021016024156.GC60369@wantadilla.lemis.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> <20021015145046.GA97009@nagual.pp.ru> <20021016023645.GF72251@regency.nsu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021016023645.GF72251@regency.nsu.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 Wednesday, 16 October 2002 at 9:36:45 +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:50:46PM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 17:33:04 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >>> >>> 1. Keep the color support turned off for catpages and man(1). >> >> Yes, at least on the disk or through the pipe (generally, when device is >> not display). They are not only displayed on terminal but can be printed >> too or post-processed on some other way. > > Color (and other weird formattig) should be dropped when output is not > tty. Why? That most emphatically does not apply to troff output, and I can't see why it should for nroff. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message