ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (09/02/88)
Is there a way of making nroff ignore its default bold and italic settings? Whenever the entries in the nterm/tab.XXX file are left blank, bdon "" bdoff "" iton "" itoff "" nroff denotes italics by underlining characters and bold by striking three times. I would like to save my nroff'd man pages without the extra junk that cannot be displayed in my terminals. Can I make nroff forget about bold and italics?
mpp@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Michael Palmquist) (09/10/88)
In article <13838@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu writes: > Is there a way of making nroff ignore its default bold and italic settings? > > I would like to save my nroff'd man pages without the extra junk that cannot > be displayed in my terminals. Can I make nroff forget about bold and > italics? Have you tried piping your nroff'ed document to col -b? If you do, it basically strips out the bullshit you get with double and triple hammmering of characters that nroff does with bold and italic. nroff -mm yourfile.m | col -b > newfile.x newfile.x doesn't have the extra stuff. mpp