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diff --git a/doc/refont.man b/doc/refont.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d7bbf93 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/refont.man @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +.TH REFONT 1 +.SH NAME +refont - changes the notation used for fonts +.SH SYNOPSIS +\fBrefont\fP [\fIflags\fP] \fIfiles\fP... +.SH DESCRIPTION +\fIRefont\fP reads a text file which contains font selection codes embedded +within it, +and it writes the same text with a different notation for fonts. +.PP +For example, the Elvis documentation uses Epson-compatible escape sequences +to select different fonts. +You could use the command "refont -b intro.doc >intro.b" to make a file +that uses overtyping to implement boldface or underlined text. +.SH OPTIONS +.IP \fB-b\fP +Emit text which uses the "backspace" notation for fonts. +Each underlined character will be preceded by an underscore character +and a backspace character. +Bold characters are sent twice, with a backspace in between. +The UNIX \fImore\fR utility understands this notation. +.IP \fB-c\fP +Emit text which uses the "carriage-return" notation for fonts. +An entire line of text is written, +followed by a carriage return instead of a newline. +Then a space is sent for each normal character, +an underscore is sent for each underlined or italic character, +and each boldface character is sent a second time. +Many mainframe line printers accept this notation. +.IP \fB-d\fP +Emit text which uses nroff-style "dot" commands for fonts. +This doesn't work very well. +.IP \fB-e\fP +Emit text using Epson-compatible escape sequences for fonts. +This is useful as a "least common denominator" for font notations, +because this is the only supported notation to use control-character sequences +and also distinguish between italics and underlining. +.IP \fB-f\fP +Emit text which uses nroff's "\\fX" notation for fonts. +Underlined text is denoted by "\\fU", +boldface by "\\fB", +italics by "\\fI", +and normal text by "\\fR". +This is somewhat useful in conjunction with Elvis' "charattr" option. +.IP \fB-x\fP +Emit text which has had all font information stripped out. +.IP \fB-I\fP +When reading text, \fB-I\fP tells \fIrefont\fP to accept any of the above +notations for fonts. +Without \fB-I\fP it will ignore the "dot" command and "\\fX" notations; +they will be treated as normal text. +In other words, without \fB-I\fP the only things that could be recognized as +font changes are control-character sequences. +.IP \fB-F\fP +This causes \fIrefont\fP to insert formfeed characters between input files. +.SH BUGS +Support for the nroff-style "dot" commands is not very good. +.PP +With \fB-b\fP/\fB-c\fP, both underlining and italics are implemented by +overtyping the underscore character with a text character. +Since they are represented the same way, the distinction between underlining +and italics is lost. +.SH AUTHOR +.nf +Steve Kirkendall +kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu +\&...uunet!tektronix!psueea!eecs!kirkenda |