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From: rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: The BOLD entries in manpages
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Date: 7 Feb 91 15:47:51 GMT
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I just wrote an automatic manpage generating program, and in the process
I was forced to learn a little nroff, or at least nroff's -man macro
package.  Through this I discovered that I could not get anything in
bold to come out on the screen, even though its defined in the termcap
and in the manpage.  The italic entries come out underlined.  I seem to
remember that on a Vaxen telnetted tp a Gould PN all the entries came
out as expected.  Right now I'm running SunOS 4.1.  I looked at the output
from nroff -man with a hex dumper, and the underline codes are there, but
not anything where the bold should be!  I had previously assumed that the
'more' command was eating it, but its not even getting that far!

I've got a good terminal that can do underlining, bold, dim, reverse,
overlining, flash, etc. etc. and it would be nice to use some of these.

-Roger

-- 
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 than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsgar W. Dijkstra 
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