Dan Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dominik Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:48:17PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > > On 21 Jul 2001 19:26:09 +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > The recent fixes in the man page for Solaris etc. (\f...) broke
> > > > the bold typeface of the reformatted sections.  For example: 
> > > > 
> > > >   .TP
> > > >   .BI "Menu " menu-name " [ " position " ] [ " double-click-action " ]"
> > > > 
> > > > was changed to
> > > > 
> > > >   .IP "Menu \fImenu-name\fP [ \fIposition\fP ] [ \fIdouble-click-action

I meant to mark them as bold, oh, I see, the first 2 that I did
I copied verbatim from the 2.2.x version of the manual.

...

> I tried using multiple .BI commands but the text ran into the paragraph.
> 
> I wonder if the .BI command used in Linux would work with the vendors
> nroff/troff, perhaps all we need to do is copy the .BI macro into the
> file(s) we need it in.
> 
> Maybe I'll have some time to check later...

It looks to me like the Linux .BI command is dependent on groff's
".while" command which doesn't appear to available on Solaris.

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