[TUHS] getting nroff to underline in v6,v5

Doug McIlroy doug at cs.dartmouth.edu
Mon Sep 28 09:48:12 AEST 2015


> It seems that nroff had the ability to show underlined text very early

Pre-Unix roff had the .ul request. Thus I expect (but haven't checked)
that it was in Unix roff. It would be very surprising if nroff, which was
intended to be more capable that roff, didn't have some underlining
facility right from the start.

Doug



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