From: Carsten Kunze <carsten.kunze@arcor.de>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff documentation link broken
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:44:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1861291544.267528.1406807045858.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail08.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53da264f.hfcL8fli/GQKu747%plan9@utroff.org>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's
> any bug here :
>
> The .ul internal command draw an underline when possible,
> and use italics when it's not possible. For example, on a
> terminal without underlining capabilities, italics are used.
>
> .us is just an example of an handmade underlining
> macro, which is not expected to be implemented in all the
> macro sets.
The whole paragraph does not make sense if .ul is used. Why defining .us and not using it. This is a typo. troff doesn't underline by itself. One way is to write a custom macro (as .us) or use ms macro's .UL. .ul only underlines in nroff.
Cheers,
Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-31 11:44 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 [this message]
2014-07-31 13:43 ` arnold
2014-07-31 14:30 ` Carsten Kunze
2014-07-29 15:03 ` Anthony Sorace
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