david@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman) (06/08/84)
To do underlining (in place of italics), nroff(1) puts out an underscore,
backspace, character sequence. Previously, it had the underscore hard-wired
in. It now looks up the string defined in the terminal table for underscore
and uses that.
The underscore string for the Sanders has been redefined as "begin underline,
space, end underline". This combination has resulted in much better under-
lining on the Sanders printer.
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David Trueman @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!daviddavid@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman) (11/09/84)
Nroff(1) terminal tables now have two new fields: `iton' and `itoff' to
turn italics on or off respectively. All of our terminal tables have
been changed to reflect this. If the `iton' field is null, fake italics
(underlining) is used, so this is used in all of our terminal tables except
for the one for the Laser Jet. While installing the new terminal tables, I
took the opportunity to sort the directories in which nroff looks for both
terminal tables and macro files.
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David Trueman @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!daviddavid@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman) (05/23/85)
Nroff(1) and ditroff(1) now keep their temporary file in /md (the new
memory disk). They also have an option to provide an alternate mktemp(3)
style filename template, so the tempfile can be relocated. The option is
`-y' (real mnemonic, eh?).
Preliminary benchmarks show a speedup of 2-3 times. A further speedup in
ms(1) jobs should result when pipes are moved onto the memory disk.
(real mnemonic, eh?)
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David Trueman @ U of Toronto Zoology
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