Underlining text in troff

Jaap Akkerhuis jaap+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Sat Jan 6 05:19:39 AEST 1990


Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.questions: 4-Jan-90 Underlining text in
troff Dan Flak at mcgp1.UUCP (318)

> Does anyone have a good macro for underlining text in troff. The
> example in my book:

> .de us
> \\$1\l'|O\ul'
> ..

doesn't work. 

It should be \\$1\l'|0\(ul'. That is a ZERO not an O. Now throw the book
away and read the manual.

	jaap



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