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From: weimer@ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printing underlined text
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.183213.8920@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: 12 Nov 90 18:32:13 GMT
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In article <1990Nov11.153636.13643@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>In article <8611@fmeed1.UUCP> russ@m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us (Russ Cage) writes:
>>In article <43321@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu (hao zhou) writes:
>>>Does anybody out there know if it's possible to print out underlined
>>>text using printf() in C? And how? 
>>
>>This really belongs in comp.lang.c, but...
>>
>>printf( "Underlined text\015__________ ____\n" );
>>
>>ought to work on any ASCII system with printing terminals.
>>To use underlining on CRTs or other fancy equipment you
>>have to get hardware-specific (or use termcap).
>>
>
> One improvement would be to use:
>
>printf( "__________ ____\015Underlined text\n" );
>
> That way, on a CRT you would at least see the text instead of the
>underscores.

Another improvement:

printf( "_^HU_^Hn_^Hd_^He_^Hr_^Hl_^Hi_^Hn_^He_^Hd _^Ht_^He_^Hx_^Ht\n" );

Although this is much less readable, most "smart" terminals, as well as
printers will know how to handle this (see nroff output).

Gary Weimer