Re: how far can i go with grotty?

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Marc,

At 2020-07-24T19:46:21+0200, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> hello roffers,
> 
> i wrote this filter
> 
>     sed '
>     1i.TS\
>     tab(:);\
>     lB l l l.
>     $a.TE
>     ' | tbl |groff -kTutf8 | sed '/^$/q'
> 
> so i can get readable tables as stdout of my shell scripts. i wrote it
> as a hack but now i'm wondering ...
> 
> * I already know (using man command) that groff is good for positioning
> * I just looked at the code of tty.cpp and it
>   seems to be able to deal with colors and SGR_REVERSE CSI "7m"
> 
> so i wonder if there would be a way to have some text macros to render
> colored and reversed table headers when rendering in a terminal but
> can also be used when i need some pdf docs.

Have a look at the "Example" section of recent versions of the grotty(1)
man page, for instance here:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/grotty.1.html

You should be able to use tbl(1) and embed escapes in table heading
cells to get the effects you desire.  I haven't tried it myself, though
I did write that example.

Let me know if you could use an example.

Regards,
Branden

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