From e5846effb0fab3c1f10b071660f96b45749d74cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Archaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:53:21 +0000
Subject: Round 2 of several minor wording changes in chapter 6 (matt).

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@6258 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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 chapter06/man.xml | 20 +++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter06/man.xml')

diff --git a/chapter06/man.xml b/chapter06/man.xml
index ad40e1186..4caa3ad8f 100644
--- a/chapter06/man.xml
+++ b/chapter06/man.xml
@@ -68,15 +68,17 @@ class="directory">/etc</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
 
 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
 
-<note><para>To disable Select Graphic Rendition (SGR) escape
-sequences, edit the <filename>man.conf</filename> file and
-add the <parameter>-c</parameter> switch to
-the <envar>NROFF</envar> variable.</para></note>
-
-<para>If the character set uses 8-bit characters, search for the line
-beginning with <quote>NROFF</quote> in
-<filename>/etc/man.conf</filename>, and verify that it looks as
-follows:</para>
+<note><para>If you will be working on a terminal that does not support text
+attributes such as color and bold, you can disable Select Graphic Rendition
+(SGR) escape sequences by editing the <filename>man.conf</filename> file and
+adding the <parameter>-c</parameter> option to the <envar>NROFF</envar>
+variable. If you use multiple terminal types for one computer it may be better
+to selectively add the <envar>GROFF_NO_SGR</envar> environment variable for the
+terminals that do not support SGR.</para></note>
+
+<para>If the character set of the locale uses 8-bit characters, search for the
+line beginning with <quote>NROFF</quote> in <filename>/etc/man.conf</filename>,
+and verify that it looks as follows:</para>
 
 <screen>NROFF  /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc</screen>
 
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