From: Carsten Kunze <carsten.kunze@arcor.de>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff documentation link broken
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:30:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1567232995.956021.1406817001719.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail14.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201407311343.s6VDhZEf020039@freefriends.org>
> Please remember that the document applies to both nroff and troff.
> For nroff (terminals, printers), .ul does underlining. For typesetters
> (includes laser printers) troff .ul does italics. The .us macro shows
> how to get real underlining on a typesetter device.
Please read that paragraph carefully. The "such that" means, that the above defined macros are (should be ;) used. Also the shown output ist typeset, and not shown as typewritten with a CW font. That is simply a typo...
> Evolution plays a part here. The original formatter was nroff for
> printers and teletypes. Troff came along later, at which point .ul
> was already in use in people's documents and/or macro packages.
That is well-known of course ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-31 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-28 15:09 Carsten Kunze
2014-07-28 15:36 ` David du Colombier
2014-07-28 15:58 ` Carsten Kunze
2014-07-28 16:44 ` David du Colombier
2014-07-28 16:56 ` Carsten Kunze
2014-07-31 11:19 ` Pierre-Jean
2014-07-31 11:44 ` Carsten Kunze
2014-07-31 13:43 ` arnold
2014-07-31 14:30 ` Carsten Kunze [this message]
2014-07-29 15:03 ` Anthony Sorace
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