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Re: man page syntax for multiple Bold lines with no spaces between them?

Newsgroups comp.unix.programmer
From Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid>
Subject Re: man page syntax for multiple Bold lines with no spaces between them?
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Date 2011-05-20 13:35 +0100
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David Mathog wrote:

> On May 17, 1:12 pm, sc...@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:
>>
>> \fBBoldText\fP  \fIItalicText\fP  \f(CWConstant-Width Text\fP
>
> The string
>
> \fBBold \fIItalic \fPNormal
>
> Shows text
>   Bold (in bold) Italic (in italic) Normal (in normal)
>
> in my testing.

Really?  It should show "Normal" in bold.

The \fP means revert to the previous font, and the font that was
previously in effect (i.e. before the \fI) was bold.

> Is it OK to use it as above, or should it be more HTML like, with
> a close for each statement, like this:
>
> \fBBold \fP\fIItalic \fPblah

It would be more usual to use:

  \fBBold\fP \fIItalic\fP blah

-- 
Geoff Clare <netnews@gclare.org.uk>

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man page syntax for multiple Bold lines with no spaces between them? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 12:09 -0700
  Re: man page syntax for multiple Bold lines with no spaces between them? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-05-17 20:12 +0000
    Re: man page syntax for multiple Bold lines with no spaces between them? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 13:22 -0700
    Re: man page syntax for multiple Bold lines with no spaces between them? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-05-19 14:21 -0700
      Re: man page syntax for multiple Bold lines with no spaces between them? loozadroog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-19 22:30 -0700
      Re: man page syntax for multiple Bold lines with no spaces between them? Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2011-05-20 13:35 +0100
        Re: man page syntax for multiple Bold lines with no spaces between them? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 08:55 -0700
          Re: man page syntax for multiple Bold lines with no spaces between them? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2011-05-20 22:12 +0000
  Re: man page syntax for multiple Bold lines with no spaces between them? loozadroog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-17 14:50 -0700
    Re: man page syntax for multiple Bold lines with no spaces between them? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 15:32 -0700
      Re: man page syntax for multiple Bold lines with no spaces between them? loozadroog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-17 19:36 -0700

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