Re: [groff] improve a few terminal renderings of special characters

[Deri]

On Thursday, 30 August 2018 13:36:47 BST John Gardner wrote:
> > The locations vary, e.g. a user's $MANPATH.  Have the user specify it?
> 
> That won't help... when I said how "*(NodeJS) shells out to the system to
> locate manpages for display/processing"*, I was mainly referring to how
> Node talks to the system's man(1), asking it where the pages are located
> that address a user-specified topic, etc. Or if the user wants to run
> `apropos` and get a search rolling, it need to know what to run / what
> arguments to pass to locate manpages.. :(

Both man and man_db have config files in /etc where you can specify the 
command to use for "groff" and "nroff", changing either of these to "cat", or 
appropriate pre-processors, turns "man" or "man -t" into just a purveyor of 
the raw roff code, to do with as you will.

This is one of techniques I use to view pdf linked man pages on my system.