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Re: [Nmh-workers] man page change review
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Lyndon Nerenberg |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] man page change review |
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Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:06:35 -0700 |
On 2012-10-16, at 9:01 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> But nevertheless, thanks for your explanation! As you explain, .B and
> \fB aren't the same thing.
Also, by troff convention, the 'bold' font is whatever font is mounted at font
position 3. ('Roman' lives at position 1, and 'italic' at position 2). So if
you want to be pedantic, in raw troff you embolden text using \f3bold\fP, and
not \fBbold\fP.
You did want to know this stuff, right?
--lyndon