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From: dan@digi-g.UUCP (Dan Messinger)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.text
Subject: Re: (more) nroff questions on italics/underscore
Message-ID: <359@digi-g.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 00:15:07 EST
Article-I.D.: digi-g.359
Posted: Sun Nov 11 00:15:07 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Nov-84 06:30:38 EST
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Organization: DigiGraphic Systems Corp., Mpls.  MN
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Summary: 

In article <got to fix rn someday :-)> rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) writes:
>(Anyone have experience with variable-width characters in nroff--a "poor
>man's" proportional font?)
>
>I actually have a slightly larger
>problem here - not only does it use the literal character, but it assumes
>that it has width t.Char (the value of "Char" in the header part of the
>driving table).  This has confounded my efforts to make any sort of non-
>uniform character width, since the underlining is immediately thrown off.
>
I put together a table to make nroff do proportional spacing on our
printer.  I, too, was surprized by the underline.  I ended up writing
a filter to reduce the multiple ___\b\b\b into single _\b, and then
running it through ul to convert to using the printer's underline mode.
Crude, but the proportional spaced output sure looks nice.
(Dick, if you want my filter, drop me a note)

Dan Messinger
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