> 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.
> what about the "censoring" of the document text?
What do you mean?
Werner
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lirum larum loeffelstiel
+blood++ tissue
+ + +------+
+ +-K1+ | |
+ ca ++----| ct |
+ + k2 +------+
++++++++
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lirum larum loeffelstiel
┼blood┼┼ tissue
┼ ┼ ┌──────┐
┼ ├─K1┤ │ │
┼ ca ┼├────│ ct │
┼ ┼ k2 └──────┘
┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼
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