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From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
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Subject: Re: How to get *bold* with nroff in an xterm-window?
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Date: 4 Feb 91 18:42:04 GMT
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In article <399@rc6.urc.tue.nl>, rcpt@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) writes:
|> Can somebody explain how nroff (the `device independant'-version) can
|> generate bold in an xterm window? I use `nroff -man manual' but on my NCD
|> Xterminal I don't get a nice bold. Does there exist a tab.xterm file for
|> putting it in /usr/local/lib/nterm? Or is there another method?

Some nroff version won't even generate boldface via backspacing, I think.
For example, Sun's nroff won't do it,  but when we compiled the BSD source
of nroff and using the very same tables for the standard lpr terminal,
boldface came out just fine with overprinting using backspaces.  The
output can be fed through a pager like less to translate boldfacing into the
right terminal controls.  Works beautifully with xterm.  BTW, if your
nroff is broken and you don't have access to the source you might want to
use groff.  The -Tascii options generates both underlining and boldfacing
correctly.
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