>-----Original Message----- >From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 1:20 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OT?] Man pages > > >On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:52:37PM -0800, Barry deFreese wrote: >> Not sure if this is the proper forum for this question but I'll ask >> anywhoo. I am trying to write some man pages and am experiencing some >> wierdness. I pulled down the man mini-HOWTO from LDP and it says to try >> to use the font macros instead of the direct font operators. However, I >> have made a man page for printtool and if I use . BI which should be >> bold italics, I get bold underline. > >That's correct, you can't get italics in plain text. Try looking at the >PostScript output (-Tps) and you'll see italics. > >(.BI is alternating bold and italics rather than bold and italics >simultaneously. I'm not sure from your post whether you knew that.) > >Cheers, > >-- >Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Colin, Thanks for the reply. Yes, I did know that .BI is alternating bold and Italics, sorry but thanks for checking on me! I have actually figured out my problem, it's all about positions. In a couple of cases I didn't have a space between the macro operator and the first argument and in others I was just plain using them incorrectly. Thanks again!! Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-4005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster." Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell
