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By the way, if you're going to be all modern and UTF-8 ( Hurrah! (-: ) then shouldn't that shell script have -Tutf8 instead of -Tascii ?
Fun fact: In -Tutf8 #grotty does Unicode. But in -Tascii it does some text effects that very few people know about because they would only work on a line printer and have never worked in pg/less/most/more.
It actually tried until last year to make list bullets by overstriking a '+' with an 'o', for example
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/groff/-/blob/master/tmac/tty.tmac#L11
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The Hell of it is that grotty actually supports coloured manual pages natively, and has done all along, since the 1990s. Its own manual page is actually in colour.
Debian and others have actually patched hidden flags in to turn grotty's colour and font capabilities off, about a quarter of a century ago, and they're still there.
Simply getting rid of those patched flags makes quite a difference.
https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/italics-in-manuals.html#Debian
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The Hell of it is that grotty actually supports coloured manual pages natively, and has done all along, since the 1990s. Its own manual page is actually in colour.
Debian and others have actually patched hidden flags in to turn grotty's colour and font capabilities off, about a quarter of a century ago, and they're still there.
Simply getting rid of those patched flags makes quite a difference.
https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/italics-in-manuals.html#Debian
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"Burrphhgff?"
"Hurrrrrrr.........."
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