Wendy Palm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Copyright \(co 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
\(co gives a copyright symbol on my linux box, but results in the curser going to the top of the window and overwriting on all my other machines sun blade (5.8 Generic_108528-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100) irix (IRIX64 da 6.5 01200532 IP27) and all my Crays.
can this character be pulled out of the Copyright line? or am i missing something here?
I think you're not invoking 'nroff' correctly on the other hosts. \(co has meant the copyright symbol in troff ever since 1975 or so, so it should be widely portable, if the nroff/troff commands are set up properly.
For example, on Solaris 8, 'nroff' by default outputs data suitable for a Teletype Corporation Model 37 terminal. If your output device isn't compatible with that ancient terminal, you need to use the -T option. For example, 'nroff -Tlp' will cause \(co to output the three characters 'c <backspace> O' which should print as something roughly corresponding to a copyright symbol on printers that understand the backspace character.
Another possibility on Solaris 8 is to pipe nroff's output through the 'col' command (e.g., 'nroff -man manpage | col'); this will filter out the model-37 characters and will cause '\(co' to output as 'c', which is perhaps the best that can be done on some devices.
yes, thank you. col was exactly what i was missing. -Tlp worked also.
Another possibility is to install groff <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.19.tar.gz>; it has a number of output options to deal with special symbols like the copyright symbol.
yes, that's on the list for porting to this architecture.
-- wendy palm Cray Open Software Development, Cray Inc. wendyp at cray.com, 651-605-9154
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