"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> writes:
> It sounds like the way is clear to change perldoc's default back to > Pod::Man plus nroff. ;-) See https://github.com/briandfoy/pod-perldoc/pull/36. It looks like it's being worked on, but there's apparently some complexity downstream of both of us in figuring out a good pager to use. > Thomas Dickey has a huge section in the ncurses FAQ about this. > https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html > Scroll down to: > Why not make “xterm” equated to "xterm-256color"? This reminded me that it had been a while since I'd looked around Thomas Dickey's web site, and I spent a very enjoyable day reacquainting myself with his writing style. :) > My copy may be even more out of date than yours, but let's see if we can > get at least this claim fixed. > Support for code 3 (italic) is rare and therefore not mentioned > in that table. It is not believed to be fully supported by any > of the terminals listed, although it’s displayed as green in the > Linux console, but it is reportedly supported by urxvt. > grotty(1): > -i Render oblique‐styled fonts (I and BI) with the SGR > attribute for italic text rather than underlined text. > Many terminals don’t support this attribute; however, > xterm(1), since patch #314 (2014‐12‐28), does. Ignored if > -c is also specified. Ah, thank you. Confirmed. I suspect at some point in the past I forgot that I have to configure xterm to use a TrueType font in order to get a lot of the font behavior. (I use a bitmap font because it's substantially more readable for long periods of time than any TrueType font I've found at equivalent sizes, but using a bitmap font disables some of xterm's font family support.) Also, some of the other parameters that weren't supported the last time I checked seem to be supported now by at least xterm, namely "crossed-out" or strikethrough and double-underline. I need to add those to the module. I've made some updates, but I am very overdue for another round of work on that module. -- Russ Allbery (ea...@eyrie.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
