From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 7 20:03:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBC816A4DD for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 20:03:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C08A43DA4 for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 20:03:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from FreeBSD@insightbb.com) Received: from [192.168.1.239] (12-202-24-76.client.insightbb.com[12.202.24.76]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20050507200338i9100ajr4ne>; Sat, 7 May 2005 20:03:38 +0000 From: Steven Friedrich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 16:03:32 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505071603.32606.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> Subject: using groff macros X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 20:03:39 -0000 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.