Re: [ITP] italic-man

[Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>]

On 2019-08-09 13:31, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 09.08.2019 um 20:56 schrieb Achim Gratz:
>> Jon Turney writes:
>>> This gets a GTG from me.
>>> I believe that according to our stated procedures additional approvals
>>> are required, because this package is unique to cygwin.
>> I'm not sure I remember correctly from when the discussion went on the
>> first time, but wasn't there some mumbling about this partly going into
>> groff?  If that's still the case, remind me what this would entail and
>> I'll look into it.
> There are multiple ways of activating the feature (also described in the man page).
> The previous strategy placed a shell script wrapper "groff" aside groff, so the
> groff script and groff.exe would coexist in /bin. This was tricky to install and
> particularly it reportedly did not survive a package update of groff.
> The new approach does not use this wrapper anymore. Instead it redirects nroff
> to the package-supplied iroff script by configuration in /etc/man_db.conf.

There's also use of the undocumented LESS_TERMCAP_... with GROFF_NO_SGR env vars
(see attached - must be sourced from profile or rc) to remap bold, underline,
etc. into italic and/or colour, or whatever else you want to change, in all less
output.

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