From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from www.sonnenberger.org (www.sonnenberger.org [92.79.50.50]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o8PLhYMS008714 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 17:43:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from britannica.bec.de (www.sonnenberger.org [192.168.1.10]) by www.sonnenberger.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 342776679A for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:43:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: by britannica.bec.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9CC7611828B; Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:43:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:43:36 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: .Fn _* issue Message-ID: <20100925214336.GA9107@britannica.bec.de> References: <20100925063547.GB14869@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> <20100925213812.GE23359@iris.usta.de> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100925213812.GE23359@iris.usta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv