[bug #61561] [grotty] 'sgr' device control command seems to simply not work

[John Gardner]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #61561 (project groff):

> Rather than trying to fix this to allow dynamic update of mounted font
properties [...] I propose to simply rip out this device control command
entirely.
>
> On a related but different subject, I want a better way to tell grotty to
use real italics so it's easier to make it the default

Not sure about you, but I see a perfect opportunity to put a currently-useless
bit of kruft to good use by repurposing it to toggle “real” italics,
Fraktur, dimmed text, strikeouts, and any other spiffy-looking but
fundamentally useless effect for terminals that happen to support such
nicer-looking effects:


\X'sgr: italics on'

\e[3m _Now THAT'S what I call emphasis_ \e[23m

\X'sgr: italics off'


I might be leaning too strongly on my expectations as a part-time Emacs user,
whose graphical mode brings out these pleasant-looking effects in text I'm
normally used to reading in very spartan settings.


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