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]
