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From: dfh@ecsvax.UUCP (David Hinnant)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: HELP: nroff and laser printers
Message-ID: <4740@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 88 03:11:30 GMT
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc.
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Keywords: nroff device driver laser printer italics underline


I've hooked a Xerox 2700 and a DEC LN03 to a Sys V Rel 2 VAX with DWB
1.0 for use by nroff.  I've got nroff drivers for both devices.  So
far, so good.  Now, if I define the italics/underling on and off
entries in the "termtable" for the nroff driver, I can generate
underlining, but very bizzarely: The underlining for both printers is
done by turning it on before the desired text, and then off when
finished.  What happens when I format the line:

	"\fIunderline this text\fP but not this" 

is that the space before "but" is underlined as well.  Moreover, when I
use a ".ul" request, underlining is turned on, but never off when the
last word on the line is to be underlined!  I've gotten around this by
putting the "underline off" command in "twnl" entry in the nroff driver
table.

Am I missing something? Help?!?

One more question on a slightly different subject:  How can I generate 
undelining in troff.  I have ditroff and devps on another machine.  My
".ul" commands turn italics on instead.... 

As always, thanks in advance for any assistance!


-- 
Fortune for the day: "Beware of no pr}Blems in your diks subysstem"

David Hinnant		UUCP: ...mcnc!ecsvax!dfh
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