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| author |   Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2013-08-08 20:07:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2013-08-08 20:07:47 +0000 |
| commit | cbcd971bbd4927814d654460337a6774684b3d8f (patch) | |
| tree | a16bde046faa01e1fc65164f1b20f8dc356001d7 /roff.7 | |
| parent | b9c9c79db57653ef779df3251313389a9fe378ec (diff) | |
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Implement the roff(7) font-escape sequence \f(BI "bold+italic".
This improves the formatting of about 40 base manuals
and reduces groff-mandoc formatting differences in base by about 5%.
Diffstat (limited to 'roff.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | roff.7 | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.41 2013/07/13 19:41:16 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: roff.7,v 1.42 2013/08/08 20:07:47 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 13 2013 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 8 2013 $ .Dt ROFF 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -146,12 +146,19 @@ respectively) may be used instead. The indicator or numerical representative may be preceded by C (constant-width), which is ignored. .Pp +The two-character indicator +.Sq BI +requests a font that is both bold and italic. +It may not be portable to old roff implementations. +.Pp Examples: .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact .It Li \efBbold\efR -Write in bold, then switch to regular font mode. +Write in \fBbold\fP, then switch to regular font mode. .It Li \efIitalic\efP -Write in italic, then return to previous font mode. +Write in \fIitalic\fP, then return to previous font mode. +.It Li \ef(BIbold italic\efP +Write in \f(BIbold italic\fP, then return to previous font mode. .El .Pp Text decoration is |