I seem to recall that once upon a time simple pic output was reasonably approximated with nroff (i.e. groff -Tlatin1).
at least I'm rather sure that some 2 years ago it was always possible to look at the actual text of larger documents containing interspersed `pic' code with nroff without problems. at some point that behaviour changed: I now encounter the situation where the `nroff' output starts to switch the background colour to black (or whatever: there are black rectangles instead of readable text) after it encounters some pic code in the document. as an example I've included a simple example. if you format this with pic tt.ms | nroff -ms you should see what I mean (and this is one of the more benign cases: a bit of the pic output is still recognizable). question: has something been broken with the nroff approximation of pic (or do I phantasize and it was never there?). what about the "censoring" of the document text? joerg
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