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Help needed with "nroff -me".

#674
From: Stephen J. Muir
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1985 01:50
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With the following as input to nroff:
----------------------------------- Cut Here ----------------------------------
.so /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.e
.(b
% \c
.cu
mail stephen
Subject: \c
.cu 3
Student projects.
Could you see me in my office at 15:00 please.
\&.
EOT
%
.)b
----------------------------------- Cut Here ----------------------------------
I find that the ":" and '.' characters are NOT underlined.  I find that
replacing the ".(b" with ".nf" and deleting the last line fixes the problem.
However, I want to use ".(b".  Can anyone help with this please?
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From: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir)
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Subject: Help needed with "nroff -me".
Message-ID: <824@dcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 20:50:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 27 20:50:28 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 30-Nov-85 00:46:52 EST
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Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University.
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