From 6dbe3af945a63f025561abb83275cee9ff06c57b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karel Zak Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 00:25:32 +0100 Subject: Imported from util-linux-2.2 tarball. --- text-utils/colcrt.1 | 108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 108 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text-utils/colcrt.1 (limited to 'text-utils/colcrt.1') diff --git a/text-utils/colcrt.1 b/text-utils/colcrt.1 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a9447af61 --- /dev/null +++ b/text-utils/colcrt.1 @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)colcrt.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/30/93 +.\" +.Dd June 30, 1993 +.Dt COLCRT 1 +.Os BSD 3 +.Sh NAME +.Nm colcrt +.Nd filter nroff output for CRT previewing +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm colcrt +.Op Fl +.Op Fl \&2 +.Op Ar +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Colcrt +provides virtual half-line and reverse line feed sequences +for terminals without such capability, and on which overstriking +is destructive. +Half-line characters and underlining (changed to dashing `\-') +are placed on new lines in between the normal output lines. +.Pp +Available options: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl +Suppress all underlining. +This option is especially useful for previewing +.Em allboxed +tables from +.Xr tbl 1 . +.It Fl 2 +Causes all half-lines to be printed, effectively double spacing the output. +Normally, a minimal space output format is used which will suppress empty +lines. +The program never suppresses two consecutive empty lines, however. +The +.Fl 2 +option is useful for sending output to the line printer when the output +contains superscripts and subscripts which would otherwise be invisible. +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +A typical use of +.Nm colcrt +would be +.Bd -literal +tbl exum2.n \&| nroff \-ms \&| colcrt \- \&| more +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr nroff 1 , +.Xr troff 1 , +.Xr col 1 , +.Xr more 1 , +.Xr ul 1 +.Sh BUGS +Should fold underlines onto blanks even with the +.Ql Fl +option so that +a true underline character would show. +.Pp +Can't back up more than 102 lines. +.Pp +General overstriking is lost; +as a special case +.Ql \&| +overstruck with +.Ql \- +or underline becomes +.Ql \&+ . +.Pp +Lines are trimmed to 132 characters. +.Pp +Some provision should be made for processing superscripts and subscripts +in documents which are already double-spaced. +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +command appeared in +.Bx 3.0 . -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522