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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: The BOLD entries in manpages
Message-ID: <15148@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 9 Feb 91 21:38:14 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.154751.18616@unhd.unh.edu> <241@raysnec.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <241@raysnec.UUCP> shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
>Termcap and terminfo references to bold, underline, etc. define the codes
>to be sent to the terminal to invoke these characteristics, but nroff does
>not generate these codes. It does not, after all, generate for the terminal.

Actually, nroff does generate appropriate control codes as described
for the terminal type specified to nroff by its -T option.  If you
omit the -T option you get some default, probably Teletype Model 37.
nroff's terminal descriptions are not obtained from termcap/terminfo,
but rather from its own (small) database of terminal/printer
descriptions.  For further details RTFM.