Re: [Groff] replacement for col

[walter harms]

Am 24.07.2012 18:16, schrieb 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
> 

Works fine for me.
A nice extension for grotty would be a switch for pure/plain that disables
all bold, underlines etc.

re,
 wh