> Please remember that the document applies to both nroff and troff. > For nroff (terminals, printers), .ul does underlining. For typesetters > (includes laser printers) troff .ul does italics. The .us macro shows > how to get real underlining on a typesetter device.
Please read that paragraph carefully. The "such that" means, that the above defined macros are (should be ;) used. Also the shown output ist typeset, and not shown as typewritten with a CW font. That is simply a typo... > Evolution plays a part here. The original formatter was nroff for > printers and teletypes. Troff came along later, at which point .ul > was already in use in people's documents and/or macro packages. That is well-known of course ...