Re: [Groff] groff behaving oddly

[Werner LEMBERG]

> (1) Try 'man more' - a whole lot of groff requests (.if, .ie, .el and
> .nop, in the main) are passed through verbatim, whether to postscript or
> tty.

Fixed, thanks.  I missed the `skip_alternative' routine while
reorganizing the handling of the `have_input' flag in troff's
input.cc.

> (2) Underlining is messed up when viewing a manpage in a rxvt
> terminal (but not xterm).  groff -Tlatin1 -man groff.7 | less -R,
> for instance, has any indent preceding underlined text also
> underlined; after I quit less, all text in the terminal continues to
> be underlined.  This occurs whether I use less or more; but, as I
> said, only in rxvt, not xterm.  I've included a screenshot of the
> behaviour.

I think I've this fixed also now.  It was an old bug, and changing the
default index from `8' to `-1' apparently caused this effect in rxvt
(grotty produced an invalid SGR sequence).

Please test the current CVS again.


    Werner