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
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2015-09-27 23:48 Doug McIlroy [this message]
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2015-09-27 23:55 ` scj
2015-09-27 18:00 ` Clem Cole
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