Re: Underlining in troff

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From: Jos Vos
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1989 05:29

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In article <266@opel.UUCP> johnk@opel.UUCP (John Kennedy) writes:

>- Is there a way I can get font #2 to produced underlined output
>  instead of italicized, ala the way nroff substitutes underlines
>  for italics?   It seems I once read about a reg you could set
>  that would effect this globally, but I can't find it now.

I never did hear about such a hidden register. And I really think
it isn't possible. Only by letting your postprocessor generating
an underlined character for every character in some font.
But then you have to adapt your postprocessor (source).

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From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
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Subject: Re: Underlining in troff
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Date: 24 Aug 89 05:29:05 GMT
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