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[Groff] pic and nroff
From: |
Joerg van den Hoff |
Subject: |
[Groff] pic and nroff |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:45:36 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
I seem to recall that once upon a time simple pic output was reasonably
approximated with nroff (i.e. groff -Tlatin1).
at least I'm rather sure that some 2 years ago it was always possible to look at
the actual text of larger documents containing interspersed `pic' code with
nroff without problems. at some point that behaviour changed: I now encounter
the situation where the `nroff' output starts to switch the background colour to
black (or whatever: there are black rectangles instead of readable text) after
it encounters some pic code in the document.
as an example I've included a simple example. if you format this with
pic tt.ms | nroff -ms
you should see what I mean (and this is one of the more benign cases: a bit
of the pic output is still recognizable).
question:
has something been broken with the nroff approximation of pic (or do I
phantasize and it was never there?).
what about the "censoring" of the document text?
joerg
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Description: Troff document
- [Groff] pic and nroff,
Joerg van den Hoff <=
- Re: [Groff] pic and nroff, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/03/18
- Re: [Groff] pic and nroff, Joerg van den Hoff, 2007/03/18
- Re: [Groff] pic and nroff, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2007/03/19
- Re: [Groff] pic and nroff, Joerg van den Hoff, 2007/03/19
- Re: [Groff] pic and nroff, Keith MARSHALL, 2007/03/19
- Re: [Groff] pic and nroff, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2007/03/19
- Re: [Groff] pic and nroff, Werner LEMBERG, 2007/03/21