alanw@microsoft.UUCP (Alan Whitney) (08/11/83)
It was stated that ANSI does not define a control sequence for a dim character rendition. That is not the case. \E[2m should give ``Faint, decreased intensity or secondary color'' on terminals which support it (my Z-29 does). Alan Whitney Microsoft Corp. {decvax,fluke,uw-beaver}!microsoft!alanw
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (08/11/83)
It figures. In my windows library I used "bo" and "be" for bold and bold-end, "ws" and "we" for wink (==blink) start and end. Now, if Berkeley doesn't document their stuff, how do they expect people to write compatible code? - Chris -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay
andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (08/17/83)
The ul(1) program included with 4.1aBSD Unix uses some undocumented TERMCAP fields to provide a variety of character attributes, particularly including boldface. Since ul is called by man(1) to present a manual page with appropriate terminal-dependent characters, this can result in boldface characters instead of reverse video for program synopses, emphasized words, etc. The resulting display can be highly readable. The complete list of ul's TERMCAP fields for character attributes is: so -- enter stand out mode (normally reverse video) se -- exit stand out mode us -- enter underline mode ue -- exit underline mode mh -- enter dim mode md -- enter bold mode mr -- enter reverse mode me -- turn off all attributes, normal mode uc -- underscore a single character The following line will provide fullblown character attributes for a terminal which uses the ANSI escape sequences: :md=\E[1m:me=\E[m:mr=\E[7m:se=\E[m:so=\E[7m:ue=\E[m:ul:us=\E[4m: (ANSI doesn't define "dim mode".) This works for the Ann Arbor Ambassador and the VT-102. I suspect that it might work with the new Teletypes. -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]