nroff driver tables / italics mode
Joe Chapman
joe at cadmus.UUCP
Thu Apr 19 04:40:07 AEST 1984
> 2) the remark about boldface mode being reset automatically by the "twnl"
> string is *not* generically true; it was a local modification made here due
> to the braindamage of the Spinwriter printers we have - a carriage return
> turns off boldfacing on those printers,
We had exactly the opposite problem with a SysIII - flavor nroff; it did
move()'s without turning bdmode/itmode off. When our Qume printer came to
the end of a line while in italics (underline) mode, it rather insolently
did a line feed and underlined the left margin on the next line. I added
some stuff to move() to turn off italics just before it does lead/escape
motions:
if(itmode) {
oputs(t.itoff);
itmode = 0;
}
Since ptout1() (at least on our system) checks to see if t.iton/t.bdon
should be sent before printing characters, I didn't need to worry about
restoring italics after turning them off.
-- Joe Chapman
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