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Article #432Help with man macros
From: Rich Patterson
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1989 21:37
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1989 21:37
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Hi,
I have a question about the man macros. The version of nroff and man
macros I have are those that come with System V rel 3.0 for the 386.
When I nroff a man page, like the ones that come with smail, gcc,
in other words ones that I didn't create, I get interesting output for the
header: (Command line: nroff -man pathalias.8 >pa.out; vi pa.out)
P^HP^HP^HP^HA^HA^HA^H ... so on for the header
What I assume is that the overstrike or backspacing is being used
for boldfacing. I'm trying to get nroff not to output those overstrike
characters. However, when I try the '-u' option for nroff, to set the
"emboldening factor",(the default is zero) it doesn't change the output.
I've also tried different -T output devices, and have compared the
Sys V man macros to Sun man macros (which don't output the overstrike
sequence) to no avail. Can someone help ??? Any ideas or workarounds
would be great. Please e-mail to me directly. Thanks in advance.
Rich P.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!ctrsol!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!pacbell!osc!rp From: rp@osc.COM (Rich Patterson) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions Subject: Help with man macros Keywords: text processing nroff man macros Message-ID: <434@osc.COM> Date: 27 Jul 89 21:37:08 GMT Followup-To: rp@osc.com Organization: Object Sciences Corp., Menlo Park, CA Lines: 21