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Re: [Groff] underlining in nroff

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Subject: Re: [Groff] underlining in nroff
From: qrczak@xxxxxxxxxx (Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk)
Date: 31 Mar 2001 21:08:19 GMT
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> > Why not?  If you're going to interpret "_^H " as an underlined
> > space, then it would only make sense to interpret "_^H_" as an
> > underlined underscore.

OTOH "a^Ha" is interpreted as bold "a" for any character "a".
So there is an ambiguity when "a" is "_": when one is interpreted OK,
the other is inconsistent.

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- Re: [Groff] underlining in nroff
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