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* doc fix for rcutils environmental variables.

* RCUTILS_CONSOLE_OUTPUT_FORMAT escape sequences support table.

Signed-off-by: Tomoya.Fujita <Tomoya.Fujita@sony.com>
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fujitatomoya authored Sep 15, 2023
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Console output formatting
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If you would like more or less verbose formatting, you can use RCUTILS_CONSOLE_OUTPUT_FORMAT environment variable.
If you would like more or less verbose formatting, you can use the ``RCUTILS_CONSOLE_OUTPUT_FORMAT`` environment variable.
For example, to additionally get the timestamp and location of the log calls, stop the demo and restart it with the environment variable set:

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You should see the timestamp in seconds and the function name, filename and line number additionally printed with each message.
*The ``time`` option is only supported as of the ROS 2 Bouncy release.*

``RCUTILS_CONSOLE_OUTPUT_FORMAT`` also supports the following escape character syntax.

.. list-table::
:header-rows: 1

* - Escape character syntax
- Character represented
* - ``\a``
- Alert
* - ``\b``
- Backspace
* - ``\n``
- New line
* - ``\r``
- Carriage return
* - ``\t``
- Horizontal tab

Console output colorizing
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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