On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Derek Martin wrote: > On systems using groff >= 1.18, xman is broken. Newer versions of > groff now use "SGR escape sequences" by default, rather than ^H > sequences, for underlining and enboldening text. In order to get the > old behavior (compatible with xman), you must call groff with the -c > option.
> See http://groff.ffii.org/ for details. > For such systems, the following patch should suffice to fix the > problem. Ideally, this should probably get some sort of configurable > define, but I don't want to guess how the X team would want to go > about dealing with this... > # diff -u oldvendor.h vendor.h > - --- oldvendor.h 2003-01-08 13:30:08.000000000 -0500 > +++ vendor.h 2003-01-08 13:33:02.000000000 -0500 > @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ > # elif defined(BSD) && (BSD >= 199103) > # define FORMAT "| eqn | tbl | nroff -man" > # elif defined(linux) > - -# define FORMAT "| geqn | gtbl | groff -Tlatin1 -mandoc" > +# define FORMAT "| geqn | gtbl | groff -c -Tlatin1 -mandoc" > # else > # define FORMAT "| neqn | nroff -man" /* The format command. */ > # endif Please spend the time to come up with a patch that also works for older groff's and submit the result to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
