Re: [Groff] underlining in nroff

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Unix nroff doesn't use the ditroff language, only troff does; and
> troff interprets .ul and .cu identically as a request for italics.
> Ah, you're thinking about how to implement it in groff!  One
> approach would be to never underline italic spaces (which is what
> currently happens, right?) but to translate space to \(ul when in
> .cu mode.

At least `less' makes a difference between an underlined space and an
underscore (which can't be underlined in `less' at all), so this
doesn't work.

After checking the source code of grotty, I believe it is the cleanest
thing to ad a `x ...' command.


    Werner