[bug #57510] not all TTY output controls simultaneously available (nroff needs -P)

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #57510 (project groff):


[comment #1 comment #1:]
> I noticed this, too, and it annoyed me.
> 
> I also someday want to ask Colin Watson if he'd accept a patch to man-db
establishing a flag there to pass options through to the *roff post-processor,
just like -P.  (Unfortunately, -P is already taken in the man option
namespace, and that namespace is _crowded_.)
> 
> That way, people would be able to drive grotty exactly how they want by
aliasing "man" to "man --post-processor-options=-i", for instance. 

 In this case there is no need to change "man-db",
it already has the mechanism for that.

The only change needed, is to change ones knowledge about it.


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