Re: [Groff] SGR implementation in groff

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 05:49:16PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Werner,
> 
> >   . SGR will be the default; grotty's current output for bold and
> >     underlining will be available if the `-c' switch is selected to
> >     suppress color output.
> 
> That's a new grotty option, the -c?

According to NEWS it's a groff/troff option.

> As someone who dislikes colour ls what will I need to do to keep man
> working without colour?  I suppose that's asking how man can be told
> to get -c passed to grotty. /etc/man.options may help I suppose.

For man-db >= 2.3.18 (the implementation used by Debian and others), you
can edit the configuration file and change the DEFINE directive for
troff (really groff if it's installed) to pass -c. Andries' man probably
allows something similar.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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