Re: [Groff] replacement for col

[Denis M. Wilson]

Hello all

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:50:09 +0200
walter harms <address@hidden> wrote:

> hi list,
> i run into a problem that may be solved by others already.
> 
> I show a groff file as latin1, that worked fine. i had some ^H but
> that where filtered by "tr" no problem. But i added some boldface to
> the text and i got something like that N^HNi^Hic^Hch^Hht^Ht. No real
> surprise i know that "col" could handle that. Unfortunately the
> current version (util-linux-2.21.2) stumble over some umlauts in the
> text (older version also).
> 
> Does someone have an sed statement that replaces col ?
> Is there an easy way to tell groff to avoid N^HN for bold ?

Pass on options to grotty; the following removes all backspaces:

     groff -ww -Tlatin1 -P-c -P-b -P-o -P-u

'col' is not needed for groff (was for old pre-groff nroff).

Denis



-- 
()  ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail 
/\  www.asciiribbon.org   - against proprietary attachments