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Article #2768Re: In troff, is "|" supposed to be slanted in Italic?
From: nils-peter.nelson
Date: Mon, 06 May 1991 15:20
Date: Mon, 06 May 1991 15:20
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In fixing up xditview, this was the one "bug" I couldn't solve. eqn | troff | xtv will display piles with slanted lines. Brian Kernighan (author of pic) insists italic applies to letters only; X persistently slants *all* characters in the Italic fonts. Brian says he may try to change pic not to assume Italic is safe for non-letters, but no promises. I had to put shameful fudges in to get square roots, table corners and brackets to align, because of similar disagreements between X, PostScriptt and troff.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!att!att!cbnewsl!npn From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: In troff, is "|" supposed to be slanted in Italic? Summary: Kernighan says... Message-ID: <1991May6.152022.28260@cbnewsl.att.com> Date: 6 May 91 15:20:22 GMT References: <1470@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 12