From: utzoo!decvax!cca!dan@Sri-Tsc@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Troff confusion...
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4087
Posted: Thu Oct 28 02:29:38 1982
Received: Fri Oct 29 00:46:54 1982

Date: 26 Oct 1982 at 0904-PDT
Nroff specifically filters out nasty non-printing characters, except for a few
like control-a and control-g which are handy to use for field delimiting
characters.  There is a table buried in the middle of nroff somewhere (I think
in n1.c or n2.c) which controls the character translation you could change
that.  A better solution would be to change your terminal descriptor so that
the "bdon" and "bdoff" characters point to strings that turn bold on and off.
Then all you have to do is switch to bold font ("\fB" or ".ft B"), and voila!

	-Dan (dan@sri-tsc)