[Bug 610609] Re: grotty manpage color has gone missing and grotty color "broken"

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This bug was fixed in the package groff - 1.23.0-2

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groff (1.23.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Map CW to R for nroff (closes: #1040975).

 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org>  Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:44:41 +0100

** Changed in: groff (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  grotty manpage color has gone missing and grotty color "broken"

Status in groff package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: groff-base

  In a recent edit of the grotty manpage, the color markup has gone
  missing.  Most people couldn't tell, because the groff configuration
  from debian has "broken/disabled" the color feature, but that's a
  separate issue.  The manpage text should be:

   This makes it possible to have eight different \M[green]background\M[]
   and \m[red]foreground\m[] colors; additionally, bold and italic

  _with_ the color-markup.

  While I might appreciate those who harken back to the heady days of
  the monochrome crt computer terminal, I am annoyed that these people
  should insist upon forcing others, and me in particular, into sharing
  their nostalgic practices.

  The grotty manpage discusses grotty color features BECAUSE those color
  features are an aspect of grotty.  The manpage allows an easy check,
  to see that, basically, the color feature is working on any particular
  system.  By removing this color-markup from the manpage, it is then
  otherwise quite tedious to discover if grotty is, or is not, working
  properly.

  Also a problem in the groff-base package, and for those interested,
  who have found their way here, the groff color can be re-enabled by
  editing the configuration files

   /etc/groff/man.local
   /etc/groff/mdoc.local

  and removing or commenting-out the code which disables color, to look
  instead like:

  .  \" Debian: Disable the use of SGR (ANSI colour) escape sequences by
  .  \" grotty.
  .  \"if '\V[GROFF_SGR]'' \
  .  \"  output x X tty: sgr 0

  
  James

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