Re: [groff] improve a few terminal renderings of special characters

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Ingo,

Colin wrote:
> Ingo wrote:
> >   http://mandoc.bsd.lv/man/man.options.1.html#l
>
> This is an excellent resource that I hadn't seen before.

Hear hear.

However, I found it hard to interpret and so read the fine description
at the top of the page.  Even then, the presentation in firefox 61.0.2-1
misleads because a larger vertical gap separates related functional
description from the following programs than those programs from the
next description.

  ┌ -l  spool the output
  │
  │
  └     groff: probably before groff-0.4 (before July 14, 1990)

  ┌     interpret arguments as file names
  │
  │
  ├     man: before man-2.2a7 (before Nov 16, 1994), OpenBSD 5.7 (Aug 30, 2014)
  │
  │
  └     apropos, whatis, mandoc: OpenBSD 5.7 (Aug 30, 2014)

  ┌     do not trim output to the terminal width
  │
  │
  └     apropos, whatis: man-db (Aug 19, 2007)

  ┌     only parse NAME sections
  │
  │
  └     makemandb: NetBSD (Feb 7, 2012)

  ┌     legacy mode: search Nm,Nd, no context or formatting
  │
  │
  └     apropos: NetBSD (March 29, 2013)

  ┌     list all manual pages matching name within the search path
  │
  │
  └     man: illumos, Solaris 9-11

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Cheers, Ralph.
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