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Name

colcrt - filter nroff output for CRT previewing

Synopsis

colcrt [-] [-2] [file ...]

Description

Colcrt provides virtual half-line and reverse line feed sequences for terminals without such capability, and on which overstriking is destructive. Half-line characters and underlining (changed to dashing ‘-’) are placed on new lines in between the normal output lines.

Available options:

-
Suppress all underlining. This option is especially useful for previewing allboxed tables from tbl(1) .

-2
Causes all half-lines to be printed, effectively double spacing the output. Normally, a minimal space output format is used which will suppress empty lines. The program never suppresses two consecutive empty lines, however. The -2 option is useful for sending output to the line printer when the output contains superscripts and subscripts which would otherwise be invisible.

Examples

A typical use of colcrt would be

tbl exum2.n | nroff -ms | colcrt - | more

See Also

nroff(1) , troff(1) , col(1) , more(1) , ul(1)

Bugs

Should fold underlines onto blanks even with the ‘-’ option so that a true underline character would show.

Can’t back up more than 102 lines.

General overstriking is lost; as a special case ‘|’ overstruck with ‘-’ or underline becomes ‘+’.

Lines are trimmed to 132 characters.

Some provision should be made for processing superscripts and subscripts in documents which are already double-spaced.

History

The colcrt command appeared in 3.0BSD.

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