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COLCRT(1)                                 User Commands                                 COLCRT(1)

NAME
       colcrt - filter nroff output for CRT previewing

SYNOPSIS
       colcrt [options] [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.

OPTIONS
       -, --no-underlining
           Suppress all underlining. This option is especially useful for previewing allboxed
           tables from tbl(1).

       -2, --half-lines
           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.

       -V, --version
           Display version information and exit.

       -h, --help
           Display help text and exit.

HISTORY
       The colcrt command appeared in 3.0BSD.

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.

EXAMPLES
       A typical use of colcrt would be:

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

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

REPORTING BUGS
       For bug reports, use the issue tracker at https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues.

AVAILABILITY
       The colcrt command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux
       Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.

util-linux 2.37.2                           2021-06-02                                  COLCRT(1)

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