On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:52:56PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > 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.tr | 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). > > It works just fine for me. Below is the result as displayed > with > > groff -Tlatin1 -p -ms tt.tr > > and then the same with > > pic tt.tr | nroff -ms | less > > as displayed on a Unicode terminal.
your output looks better. may I have it? :-) > > > what about the "censoring" of the document text? > > What do you mean? > I get garbled output (text is eliminated by some "censor"). I'm usually using MacOSX and the problem occurs -- with the native terminal app of Apple -- with xterm -- with rxvt I now checked it, too, under Sun/Solaris: same thing both with xterm and rxvt. so it's not a MacOSX problem, it seems. I attach a small .png file hoping that it comes through (otherwise please let me know and I'll send it off-list) for demonstration of the effect. thanks joerg
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