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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



  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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