Bug#419324: Linuxdoc-Tools text output contains overstrikes and escape sequences

2007-04-26 Thread Agustin Martin
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:09:36PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote: > > Since I use vim for reading text, I wasn't fully aware of what it > looked like in less and mc. So I'm now only slightly in favor of > option 2 since then it can be readily read by a text editor like vim > and emacs. So I think th

Bug#419324: Linuxdoc-Tools text output contains overstrikes and escape sequences

2007-04-18 Thread David Lawyer
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:07:11PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > Reading a bit more, I think we have two possibilities, both abandoning > the grotty new default behavior of using escape sequences rather than > overtrikes for emphasis: > > 1) Revert to the original behavior (overstrikes). This sho

Bug#419324: Linuxdoc-Tools text output contains overstrikes and escape sequences

2007-04-18 Thread Agustin Martin
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:59:18AM -0700, David Lawyer wrote: > > I don't think the -f option is supposed to remove escapes. A few > years or so ago, the escape problem didn't exist. I think it was > caused by a change in the grotty program that made output with escapes > the default. ... > But

Bug#419324: Linuxdoc-Tools text output contains overstrikes and escape sequences

2007-04-18 Thread David Lawyer
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:47:14PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > Hi, David and Sano, > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:07:45PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote: > > Package: linuxdoc-tools > > Version 0.9.21-0.5 > > > > Please merge bug 175575 into this bug report since it's a subset of > > the bug (and p

Bug#419324: Linuxdoc-Tools text output contains overstrikes and escape sequences

2007-04-17 Thread Agustin Martin
Hi, David and Sano, On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:07:45PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote: > Package: linuxdoc-tools > Version 0.9.21-0.5 > > Please merge bug 175575 into this bug report since it's a subset of > the bug (and proposed fix) I'm now reporting. > > When I use sgml2txt I get both escape seque

Bug#419324: Linuxdoc-Tools text output contains overstrikes and escape sequences

2007-04-14 Thread David Lawyer
Package: linuxdoc-tools Version 0.9.21-0.5 Please merge bug 175575 into this bug report since it's a subset of the bug (and proposed fix) I'm now reporting. When I use sgml2txt I get both escape sequences and overstrikes which plain text output shouldn't normally have. There is an -f option to s