Re: [OT?] Man pages
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:52:37PM -0800, Barry deFreese wrote:
> Not sure if this is the proper forum for this question but I'll ask
> anywhoo. I am trying to write some man pages and am experiencing some
> wierdness. I pulled down the man mini-HOWTO from LDP and it says to try
> to use the font macros instead of the direct font operators. However, I
> have made a man page for printtool and if I use . BI which should be
> bold italics, I get bold underline.
That's correct, you can't get italics in plain text. Try looking at the
PostScript output (-Tps) and you'll see italics.
(.BI is alternating bold and italics rather than bold and italics
simultaneously. I'm not sure from your post whether you knew that.)
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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