URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67947>
Summary: [grotty] make it easier to obtain a plain text
stream as output
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Fri 23 Jan 2026 08:21:12 AM UTC
Category: Driver grotty
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: Postponed
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
_______________________________________________________
Follow-up Comments:
-------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri 23 Jan 2026 08:21:12 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
.by "plain text" I mean Unicode Basic Latin characters (minus DEL), plus a
handful of C0 controls (horizontal tab, line feed, and form feed; the last of
which _grotty_ only produces when given the `-f` option).
Consider:
1. Making `TERM=dumb` in the environment a synonym of `-cbou`.
2. Support an option to abbreviate `-cbou`. Maybe `-C`?
See https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2026-01/msg00161.html and
https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2026-01/msg00164.html for background and
motivation.
Not for _groff_ 1.24; born postponed. Also needs list discussion.
_______________________________________________________
Reply to this item at:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67947>
_______________________________________________
Message sent via Savannah
https://savannah.gnu.org/
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
