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Bug#880551: xterm: corrections to man page



On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 10:41:25AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> 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.

thanks :-)
 
fwiw, I wrote a script yesterday which compares the copies of the
macros with a reference version (thinking of ncurses).

> 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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