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

[John Gardner]

*> This is an excellent resource that I hadn't seen before.*

I was wondering why I hadn't seen this before either. I wished I'd found it
earlier.

It isn't included in OpenBSD's source tree, nor is it present in the
system's documentation. Is there any reason for this?

*> IME `catman' pages are dying out, deservedly.*

Glad to hear this. Hopefully they perish soon. :-)

On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 at 20:50, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
> https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
>
>