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From: hartley@uvm-gen.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: troff underlining problem
Message-ID: <343@uvm-gen.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Jul-86 10:39:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 11 10:39:17 1986
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> In article <1997@brl-smoke.ARPA>, 
> harv%ksuvax1.BITNET@WISCVM.arpa (Harvard Townsend) writes:
>> We are running the `troff' which comes with 4.2BSD on a VAX 11/780 (not
>> `ditroff').  Has anyone fixed the way it does underlining?
> 
> The correct thing to do is:  underline single
> words only, either with hyphenation off or with the macro modified to prepend
> \% to the each word; or, stop trying to underline things, and use italics.
> The second choice is better.
> 
Another possibility is to put "\ " or "\0" instead of just a blank between
the words in a phrase to be underlined.  This way the correct length will be
computed by troff.  Still hyphenation problems, though ...