Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 18:58:12 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: 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: <20021012155812.GA36832@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20021012040759.A23338@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <200210110916.g9B9GP8f064951@freefall.freebsd.org> <20021012040759.A23338@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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--rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: > > =20 > > 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). >=20 > I much prefer the current lack of use of reverse video by man in xterms. > 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 w3mman > [|-....o >=20 I think you have not understand the problem. Under xterm, the underlined 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. > Other horrid things that FreeBSD might acquire via groff from Linux > mandb include formatting text to the width of the terminal rather than > a legible width < 80 characters. >=20 Since version 1.18 (from the NEWS file), o Both the man and mdoc macro packages now use the LL and LT registers for setting the line and title length, respectively (similar to those registers in the ms macro package). If not set on the command line or in a macro file loaded before the macro package itself, they default to 78n in nroff mode and 6.5i in troff mode. I have my virtual consoles set to the 90x25 resolution, so I might run groff -P-c -Tascii -mtty-char -man -t -rLL=3D88n /usr/src/bin/cat/cat.1 to see it wide-screen. 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 --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9qEaUUkv4P6juNwoRAk0CAJ9ChpB9sEfBrq2ey5bkO3EW5EsSMACfXHQX QsIG8TWuHYSHxHxS37jrZq8= =GjCg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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