Re: .Fn _* issue

[Jason McIntyre <jmc@kerhand.co.uk>]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 05:23:42PM +0200, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote:
> > so the issue is the initial `_' in _flush_cache. it's formatted in a
> > different font to the rest of the function name (you can see this best
> > on a terminal).
> > 
> > this is a long standing bug that we always had in old groff, which
> > really annoyed me. new groff fixed it.
> 
> Jason, I'm not sure I follow as mandoc, new groff, and old groff all
> seem to do the same thing with the _flush_cache beginning:
> 
>   GNU nroff (groff) version 1.18.1
>   nroff -mandoc foo.1 | hexdump -c
>   _  \b   _   f  \b   f   l  \b   l   u  \b
> 
>   mandoc foo.1 | hexdump -c
>   _  \b   _   f  \b   f   l  \b   l   u  \b
> 
>   GNU troff version 1.15
>   nroff -mandoc foo.1 | hexdump -c
>   _  \b   _   f  \b   f   l  \b   l   u  \b
> 
> 

hmm, and you do not see the issue i describe? what else could it be?
surely not my TERM setting if mandoc shows it one way and groff another.

what else?

jmc
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