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Bug#880551: xterm: corrections to man page



At 2017-11-05T15:11:13-0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:20:54AM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > 10. Remove boldfacing from portions of code examples; these escapes
> >     changed the font family back to Times from Courier.  If this change
> >     is unacceptable, I can come up with one that will stay within the
> >     Courier family, but it will only work for groff.  I don't know of
> >     a portable way to do what I think is desired here.
> 
> This is a problem, since I'm using the boldface to guide
> a script which generates the hyperlinks here:
> 
> https://invisible-island.net/xterm/manpage/xterm.html
> 
> The \fP's should have done what was needed to restore the font-family...

Ah.  I'll revert that part for my next patch submission, than.

I think the problem comes down to restoring font style versus restoring
for family _and_ style.

A distinction without a difference on the Graphic Systems CAT with only
4 positions and that was it...

-- 
Regards,
Branden

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