troff -- bold italics

[The Resource, Poet of Quality]

In article <1297 at wjvax.UUCP>, miker at wjvax.UUCP (Michael Ryan) writes:
| to obtain bold italics one must use a construct '.bd I N' , N being the
| level of enboldening. '.bd I' should turn off enboldening. the caveat ?
| yes, 'The mode must be still or again in effect when the characters are
| physically printed.' what ? oh I get it , but I can't get it to work.
| I either get all bold italics, even after I believe I have stopped enboldening,
| or I get no bold italics at all.
| 
| frustrated and  tired , I am asking for some examples of working
| bold italics.



First, please post the problem.  Post a section of the text and
codes you are putting into troff.

.bd I 3
.ce
Hi there
.br
.bd I


should work.
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