Re: Underlining in an article

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From: Kim F. Storm
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 17:28

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eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) writes:

>When an article has underlining in it (in the form of A^H_B^H_C^H) NN
>just ignores it (in my case) and gives me the normal text (ABC).
>Perhaps I'm too lazy to RTFM again (I did study it a couple months
>ago) but am I missing some option? "set something"?.

nn consistently ignores the sequence <any-character><back-space>, so
I suppose your example should read _^HA_^HB_^HC to produce ABC.

There is nothing you can "set" which turns _^HA into an underlined A. 
If there a need for this feature I could look at it for 6.4...

-- 
Kim F. Storm        storm@texas.dk        Tel +45 429 174 00
Texas Instruments, Marielundvej 46E, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark
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From: storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm)
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Subject: Re: Underlining in an article
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Date: 7 Feb 90 17:28:59 GMT
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