Re: [groff] Groff

[Francis Gathea]

Thanks

On 21/09/2018, John Gardner <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Francis,
>
> What you're seeing are ANSI escape sequences
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code>, which get interpreted by
> terminals and terminal emulators to control on-screen presentation of text.
> E.g.:
>
> printf '\033[1mBold\033[0m\n'
>
>
> I'd say something's wrong with whatever program you're using to display the
> formatted man-page. What you're seeing is actually the correct behaviour
> for a manpage formatted by grotty(1).
>
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 at 03:18, Francis Gathea <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> I just compiled groff for android but am getting unformatted output as
>> seen on that screenshot. What am I missing?
>>
>