Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:11:26 -0700 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Underlining Message-ID: <9602052111.AA04046@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960205134826.6890A-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu> (message from Chuck Robey on Mon, 5 Feb 1996 13:50:27 -0500 (EST))
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>>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> writes:
Chuck> Does anyone know how to get underlining using
Chuck> groff/postscript? I use the mm macros, and anytime I try
Chuck> to use .cu or .ul, it just gives me italics in print (nroff
Chuck> gives underline onscreen, I think).
(This doesn't answer your question unfortunately---I use TeX.) In
professional typesetting, underlining just isn't done. Underlining is
the typerwriter's substitute for italics. Tell that to whomever gave
you the assignment!
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA
If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll
look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.
-- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey
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