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From: hapke%vger@gswd-vms.gould.com (Warren Hapke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: changing the way nroff underlines/hi
Message-ID: <12008@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 26 Feb 88 22:30:21 GMT
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You wanted to know
> is there a nroff command which will change nroff's "underlining" style
> from
>	_^Hc_^Ho_^Hr_^He_^Hd_^Hu_^Hm_^Hp_^Hs_^Hi_^Hz_^He
> to
>	coredumpsize^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H____________

If you use the nroff line-drawing function to underline, you can get what you
want.  Use the following macro, taken verbatim from Ossanna's 'NROFF/TROFF
User's Manual, section 12.4:

	.de us
	\\$1\l'|0\(ul'
	..

The command .us "coredumpsize" will then produce what you want.

Note that this is the only way to underline anything in troff.

Warren Hapke, Gould CSD-Urbana