rp@osc.COM (Rich Patterson) (07/28/89)
Hi, I have a question about the man macros. The version of nroff and man macros I have are those that come with System V rel 3.0 for the 386. When I nroff a man page, like the ones that come with smail, gcc, in other words ones that I didn't create, I get interesting output for the header: (Command line: nroff -man pathalias.8 >pa.out; vi pa.out) P^HP^HP^HP^HA^HA^HA^H ... so on for the header What I assume is that the overstrike or backspacing is being used for boldfacing. I'm trying to get nroff not to output those overstrike characters. However, when I try the '-u' option for nroff, to set the "emboldening factor",(the default is zero) it doesn't change the output. I've also tried different -T output devices, and have compared the Sys V man macros to Sun man macros (which don't output the overstrike sequence) to no avail. Can someone help ??? Any ideas or workarounds would be great. Please e-mail to me directly. Thanks in advance. Rich P. {pacbell,amdcad}!osc!rp osc!rp@pacbell.com (usually works for internet)