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From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] getting nroff to underline in v6,v5
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 19:48:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201509272348.t8RNmC4o012695@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)

> It seems that nroff had the ability to show underlined text very early

Pre-Unix roff had the .ul request. Thus I expect (but haven't checked)
that it was in Unix roff. It would be very surprising if nroff, which was
intended to be more capable that roff, didn't have some underlining
facility right from the start.

Doug



             reply	other threads:[~2015-09-27 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-27 23:48 Doug McIlroy [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-27  8:33 Mark Longridge
2015-09-27 15:51 ` John Cowan
2015-09-27 16:10   ` Ronald Natalie
2015-09-27 23:55     ` scj
2015-09-27 18:00 ` Clem Cole
2015-09-27 18:12 ` Random832

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