Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 16:03:32 -0400 From: Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: using groff macros Message-ID: <200505071603.32606.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com>
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I'm experimenting with groff macros and I've placed '.B some text' into a file. I don't know what command line options to get groff to spit it out as bold text. I've tried groff -man -T ascii filename | more but it just swallows the text. I've read many man pages but I'm not getting a thread to follow. About ten years ago I used nroff on a Gould UTX-32 (Unix) system, but I can't remember much. I believe I simply used 'nroff -man filename'. What I'm actually trying to do is create fortunes with bold, italic, and underlined words. I redirected man pages into a file and discovered that S backspace S will produce a bold S, and _ backspace S will produce S in reverse video. I added sequences like this to my fortune file, but then it's a bear to read. So I was hoping to use something from the roff family and their macros. -- i386 FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE There are 10 types of people in this world. Ones that understand binary and then, the others.
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