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underline macro for troff

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From: M.R.Campbell
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 01:59
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Hi,

I am looking for a troff macro which underlines only letters and
digits but not spaces.

As advertised in the manual, 
the .ul request in troff changes to an italic font.

The manual has a wonderful macro for continuous underlining.
The continuous underlining macro is:

		.de us
		\\$1\l'|0\(ul'
		..

Thanks,
Mike
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Subject: underline macro for troff
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Date: 13 Dec 89 01:59:32 GMT
Organization: Sceard Systems, Inc., San Marcos, CA
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