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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: System V.3 documentation source problems
Message-ID: <7404@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 2 Mar 88 19:29:47 GMT
References: <1736@quacky.mips.COM>
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1736@quacky.mips.COM> dce@mips.COM (David Elliott) writes:
- 	\f3words to be in bold\f1
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the proper way to do
- this is
- 	\f3words to be in bold\fP
- That way, you don't screw up macros that use .ft to put the font
- back the way it was.

The fonts don't stack; only the one most recent previous font is remembered.
Although \f3...\f1 is a bit sloppy, if the following text is indeed intended
to be in font 1 (regular), then this usage isn't technically wrong.