Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Underlining with TROFF
Message-ID: <9856@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 13:51:41 GMT
References: <1682@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: troff underlining formatting

In article <1682@bgsuvax.UUCP> kutz@bgsuvax.UUCP (Kenneth Kutz) writes:
>What is the best way to underline in TROFF.  The documentation states that
>the "ul" function is really "italics". 

You are truly in luck, as I had to do this yesterday. Here's how:
	.de us
	\\$1\l'|0_'
	..

use by:
	.us "string to underscore"
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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