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Article #5229Re: Underlining in Troff
From: P. L. Sullivan
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1988 16:42
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1988 16:42
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In article <2610013@hpsal2.HP.COM> morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell) writes:
>Does anyone have a macro which does proper underlining in troff.
In case you're using LaserJets (or anything else that has a similar built-in
underlining capability), the following technique may help.
We defined two special characters in the S font: ``\(US'' and ``\(UE'' to
start and end underlining. The post-processor translates these into the
sequences ``\033&dD'' and ``\033&d@'' for the LaserJet family.
The only real kludge with this technique is that we need to tell troff to
do these characters zero width; e.g.,
The word \z\(USunderlined\z\(UE is underlined.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!akgua!sorsac!pls From: pls@sorsac.UUCP (P. L. Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Underlining in Troff Message-ID: <293@sorsac.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 88 16:42:35 GMT References: <2610013@hpsal2.HP.COM> Reply-To: pls@sorsac.UUCP (P. L. Sullivan) Organization: AT&T Southern Region, Atlanta Lines: 17