Re: [Groff] Critique this bold-italic private macro for man pages

[James K. Lowden]

On Wed, 3 May 2017 22:06:10 +0200 (CEST)
Carsten Kunze <address@hidden> wrote:

> There are ways to detect the formatter but a manpage must not do
> this.  

Why not?  ISTM we'd have better manpages if they weren't constrained to
the rendering capability of a VT-100 terminal.   For example, equations
or pictures could augment the text, or replace some of it, when
"printed".  

--jkl