Re: [Groff] Re: new grotty format

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I put together a patch to grotty to allow the device control command
> \X'sgr:0' to disable SGR output, which would allow this to be
> controlled on a system-wide basis by man.local and mdoc.local.

I think my new .color request is easier to use.

> Unfortunately, putting \X'sgr:0'\c in man.local appears to cause an
> extra couple of line breaks just after the first page header, which
> is quite noticeable; I haven't been able to find a piece of troff
> that will just embed 'x X sgr:0' into the ditroff output without any
> surrounding motions.

For such situations I've recently added the `output' request:

  .output x X sgr:0


     Werner