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From: fenn@wpi.WPI.EDU (Brian Fennell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How to get *bold* with nroff in an xterm-window?
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.073828.2193@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 5 Feb 91 07:38:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: wpi.1991Feb5.073828.2193
References: <399@rc6.urc.tue.nl>
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <399@rc6.urc.tue.nl> rcpt@urc.tue.nl 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?
>
funny you should ask this, I was just answering a simmilar question.

nroff generates x^Hx for bold and x^H_ for underlined text.
ul and less handle this very well.

nroff -man manual | less -s
or
nroff -man manual | cat -s | ul 
I don't suggest puting a more at the end of the second example unless
you make your xterm (about) 132 cols wide.  more can't handle the
invisable characters ul adds.

Brian Fennell == fenn@wpi.wpi.edu