On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 19:10, Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 06:55:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
In fact, the only documentation that I know of that is
pure ASCII are README files. That's why roff was put into
Unix 25 years ago: because bold, underlines, italics, and
different point sizes *do* impart information that pure
ASCII can not.
That said, man pages use an *extremely* conservative subset of *roff ...
True, but some extreme positions were being expressed, and I
saw the need to remind that there's a large spectrum between
low infrared and hight ultraviolet.
As in may other areas, 3" high bold, red fonts in emails can
be directly attributable to PEBKAC, and that does not invalidate
the *judicious* use of differing sizes, strokes and colors...