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From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: In troff, is "|" supposed to be slanted in Italic?
Summary: Kernighan says...
Message-ID: <1991May6.152022.28260@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 6 May 91 15:20:22 GMT
References: <1470@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In fixing up xditview, this was the one "bug" I couldn't
solve. eqn | troff | xtv     will display piles with
slanted lines. Brian Kernighan (author of pic) insists
italic applies to letters only; X persistently slants
*all* characters in the Italic fonts. Brian says he may
try to change pic not to assume Italic is safe for
non-letters, but no promises.
I had to put shameful fudges in to get square roots,
table corners and brackets to align, because of
similar disagreements between X, PostScriptt and troff.