From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: .Fn _* issue
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:43:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100925214336.GA9107@britannica.bec.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100925213812.GE23359@iris.usta.de>
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:38:12PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > this is a long standing bug that we always had in old groff, which
> > really annoyed me. new groff fixed it.
>
> Not really. What happens is that groff-1.20.1 uses ANSI encoding,
> not backspace encoding for bold and underline, and in ANSI encoding,
> that limitation does not exist. In ANSI encoding, the bold underscore
> is "\e[1m_" while the underlined underscore would be "\e[4m_",
> the "\e" representing the escape character (ASCII 0x1b).
Actually, I think for newer groff it depends on the output device. Some
use ANSI encodings, some use backspace encoding.
Joerg
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-25 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-25 6:35 Jason McIntyre
2010-09-25 15:23 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-09-25 15:35 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-09-25 15:45 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-09-25 17:47 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-09-25 20:18 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-09-25 21:25 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-09-25 21:29 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-09-25 21:38 ` Ingo Schwarze
2010-09-25 21:43 ` Joerg Sonnenberger [this message]
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