Re: [BUG] "\fC" macro in ox-man.el [9.6.15 (release_9.6.15 @ /usr/share/emacs/29.2/lisp/org/)]

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> writes:

>>  ...
>> (4) will produce a man file named after the .org file, in the same
>> directory.
>
> Thank you very much.  I'll test out my proposed changes locally.

Note that the official Org mode repository is on savannah.
See https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html

>> > (As another aside, the stroke color selection escape sequences `\m`
>> > are (a) GNU troff extensions, albeit supported by the same
>> > formatters that `\f[CR]` is, but (b) probably unnecessary because
>> > nothing else in this entire file seems to use any other color for
>> > anything.)
>> 
>> May black sometimes be different from the default color?
>
> Yes, but it's impossible to know what the default color is; there is
> interface for GNU troff to obtain this information from the output
> device (and even if there were, due to device-independent troff's
> multi-stage architecture, which groff also uses, there is no way[1] to
> use that information to make decisions in the *roff(1) language altering
> the document's formatting in response to it.
>
> Also, explicitly selecting `\m[black]` as you are is going to backfire
> on terminals using a black background--the text will become invisible!
> ...

I dropped force-setting black color now.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=db995c8003

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