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| author |   Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2018-12-28 00:15:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2018-12-28 00:15:11 +0000 |
| commit | b4f47224dd1036f4d89f641195a444eea00a55e8 (patch) | |
| tree | c7729b88cfb3414db25c62cdd8649cbaee5f8df9 | |
| parent | d352d5370ac6ee67491525dda37cf9db2e9ac53b (diff) | |
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add some notes about using col(1) and ul(1) to process the ascii markup
since these may not be commonly known utilities;
idea from and joint work with tedu@
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| -rw-r--r-- | mandoc.1 | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.234 2018/12/24 23:37:22 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.235 2018/12/28 00:15:11 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2018 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: December 24 2018 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 28 2018 $ .Dt MANDOC 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -256,6 +256,13 @@ where is the back-space character number 8. Emboldened characters are rendered as .Sq c Ns \e[bs] Ns c . +This markup is typically converted to appropriate terminal sequences by +the pager or +.Xr ul 1 . +To remove the markup, pipe the output to +.Xr col 1 +.Fl b +instead. .Pp The special characters documented in .Xr mandoc_char 7 |