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in thread perldoc Bold, Italic etc

My guess is that you have another terminal now which isn't enabled to render escape sequences.

But it's still guessing, not enough infos to tell and I don't have a Linux at hand to check

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Re^8: perldoc Bold, Italic etc
by LanX (Saint) on Sep 01, 2021 at 13:06 UTC
    OK I checked with an old VM image with ubuntu14

    something like

    > PERLDOCDEBUG=2 perldoc tst.pod

    [download]

    will show you plenty of details, like the found formatters and nroff binaries.

    This might give you a hint how the two systems are differing.

    (On a side note: the supposedly italic text was underlined in my terminal)

    lanx@ubuntu14-large:/tmp$  PERLDOCDEBUG=2 perldoc tst.pod 
New Pod::Perldoc object Pod::Perldoc=HASH(0xfc2cb8)
'opt_o_with: Noting "text" as desired output format...
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::Totext
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::Totext
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::ToText
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::ToTEXT
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::text
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::text
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::Text
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::TEXT
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::text
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::text
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Text
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::TEXT
'opt_o_with: Noting "man" as desired output format...
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::Toman
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::Toman
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::ToMan
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Perldoc::ToMAN
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::man
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::man
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::Man
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Simple::MAN
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::man
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::man
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::Man
'opt_o_with: Considering Pod::MAN
  Beginning process.
  Args: tst.pod

  Okay, no PERLDOC setting in ENV.
  Args right before switch processing: tst.pod
'GetOptsOO::getopts: Starting switch processing.  Scanning arguments [
+tst.pod]
'GetOptsOO::getopts: Ending switch processing.  Args are [tst.pod] wit
+h 0 errors.
  Args after switch processing: tst.pod
'process: /usr/bin/perldoc => Pod::Perldoc v3.19
'process: 
'find_good_formatter_class: Formatter class Pod::Perldoc::ToMan versio
+n 3.19 successfully loaded!
'find_good_formatter_class: Will format with the class Pod::Perldoc::T
+oMan
'grand_search_init: Searching for tst.pod
'grand_search_init: Found as tst.pod
DEBUG Looking for /home/lanx/perl5/perlbrew/bin/groff
DEBUG Looking for /home/lanx/bin/groff
DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/sbin/groff
DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/bin/groff
DEBUG Looking for /usr/sbin/groff
DEBUG Looking for /usr/bin/groff
DEBUG Found /usr/bin/groff
DEBUG Looking for /sbin/groff
DEBUG Looking for /bin/groff
DEBUG Looking for /usr/games/groff
DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/games/groff
DEBUG Looking for /home/lanx/perl5/perlbrew/bin/nroff
DEBUG Looking for /home/lanx/bin/nroff
DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/sbin/nroff
DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/bin/nroff
DEBUG Looking for /usr/sbin/nroff
DEBUG Looking for /usr/bin/nroff
DEBUG Found /usr/bin/nroff
DEBUG Looking for /sbin/nroff
DEBUG Looking for /bin/nroff
DEBUG Looking for /usr/games/nroff
DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/games/nroff
DEBUG Looking for /home/lanx/perl5/perlbrew/bin/mandoc
DEBUG Looking for /home/lanx/bin/mandoc
DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/sbin/mandoc
DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/bin/mandoc
DEBUG Looking for /usr/sbin/mandoc
DEBUG Looking for /usr/bin/mandoc
DEBUG Looking for /sbin/mandoc
DEBUG Looking for /bin/mandoc
DEBUG Looking for /usr/games/mandoc
DEBUG Looking for /usr/local/games/mandoc
DEBUG Using /usr/bin/groff
DEBUG Pod::Man switches are []
DEBUG Parsing tst.pod
DEBUG Done parsing tst.pod
DEBUG Writing podman.out.23829.txt with Pod::Man output
DEBUG Filtering through /usr/bin/groff
DEBUG Found groff 1.22.2
DEBUG render is /usr/bin/groff
DEBUG render options are -man -Kutf8 -Tutf8 -rLL=199n
DEBUG Writing to pipe to /usr/bin/groff
DEBUG Writing chunk 1.022705078125
DEBUG Checking read
DEBUG Writing chunk 2.022705078125
DEBUG Checking read
DEBUG Done writing
DEBUG Done reading. Output is 625 bytes
DEBUG Output:
----
TST(1)                                                                
+            User Contributed Perl Documentation                      
+                                                      TST(1)



Bold heading
       ·   Italic item

           Description of the first argument.

       ·   also Italic

           Description of the second argument.



perl v5.18.2                                                          
+                         2021-09-01                                  
+                                                      TST(1)

----
DEBUG filter_nroff is not set, so not filtering
DEBUG Found groff 1.22.2
tst.pod isn't a temp file, so not unlinking.
Finished writing to /tmp/6Dk7gFvniR.
'page: About to try calling /usr/bin/sensible-pager /tmp/6Dk7gFvniR
lanx@ubuntu14-large:/tmp$

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    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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      Life is too short to fret over cosmetics (I retired from programming professionally more than 10 years ago)
      Anyhoo: the quick-fix is just to create an alias as I mentioned earlier.
      A little piece of Perly-bandaid and the problem has gone for me. ;-)
      Thanks so much for the comments & input!
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