Re: Bl bullet.

[Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>]

>> What the hell is with groff's `Bl -bullet'?
>> "+\b+\bo\bo" makes no sense to me.
> 
> I suspect some devices render (or rendered?) that as real bullet
> and not just a bold 'o', by printing a bold '+' and a bold 'o'
> in the same place.  I can't confirm that, though; neither my
> VGA glass console (TERM=vt220) nor my xterm (TERM=xterm) does so.
> On both devices, it looks just the same as "o\bo".  And i don't
> have a wire matrix printer around right now.  ;-)
> 
>> Do we really need to preserve this behaviour, or can we just use
>> o\bo as it is right now in the code?
> 
> Well, it is certainly not critical, and i admit i can't provide
> really good reasons for it.  On the other hand, it is a gratuitious
> difference.  What does it cost fixing it?  Or is there any downside
> when changing to "+\b+\bo\bo"?

For now, I'm going to just leave it as-is.

The problem is that this introduces a naughty character: the 
interstitial \b.  The "+\b+" is ok (bold "+"), as is the "o\bo", but the 
middle \b is not allowed.  And I'd rather not lift the ASCII invariant 
from the low-level drivers for now.

Kristaps
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