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This may be an elementary question, but I sure can't find anything in
any documentation available to me:

Can I describe other terminals to nroff?

Specifically, I want to describe an Epson printer, which is capable
of half-linefeeds (down only), italics, underlining, boldface, Pica
and Elite (and Compressed, for that matter), etc.

I want to give Nroff what amounts to a termcap for my printer.  This
would include the fact that it does italics and underlining (so Nroff
wouldn't have to use backspace-underscore), boldface, and
half-line-feeds-forward (so col wouldn't have to do much).  I can't
post-process the output, because Nroff does nothing for boldface,
and doesn't distinguish between the underlines caused by tbl(1) lines
and by italics.

Has anyone else noticed that the documentation for UL(1) is out of date?
UL does more than underline/standout text: it translates the UNIX/ASCII
standard reverse linefeeds into terminal upline codes, for one thing...
And both it and COL(1) strip unrecognized characters, including any
printer sequences I try to insert between passes.  Of course, I can
rewrite them, but I would rather not.

Am I dreaming?  Should I be using ditroff?  Will ditroff like hearing
about a monospaced output device?  I have System V on tape only; is there
a ditroff for BSD 4.2?

					Inquisitively,

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