From: "glen herrmannsfeldt" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 13 January 2012 6:40 PM
(snip, someone wrote)
You've sometimes admonished me for taking the synchronic view
rather than the diachronic. But here, you're being narrowly
synchronic. In the Bad Old Days of Yore, mechanical serial
printers could be commanded to underscore with the sequence
<underscore><backspace><character-to-be-underscored>. In this
diachronic perspective, "underscore" is not a misnomer, merely
antiquated.
No, you write a second line with a '+' as carriage control character.
Depends on the printer.
put skip (0) ...
printed on the same line, allowing underlining and bolding.
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