Re: [Groff] [heirloom] getting dashes when a line is requested

[Blake McBride]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Carsten Kunze <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Blake McBride <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Also, how does groff get around the problem?
>
> groff may use a true line where ditroff may use the "_" and "|" characters.
>
> > Given that most documents are probably viewed via screen these days, and
> > the ugliness of the dashes, I'd think this is important to fix.
>
> Have you tested that with PDF?  If I magnify it I see a continous line.
>


It looks broken into dashes on the PDF for me.



>
> That all is a "feature" of ditroff.  ditroff has been designed with
> typesetters in mind, viewing on the screen was nearly impossible in early
> troff days.
>
> It may not be a big problem to use maybe \D commands.  But is it really
> required to change this?
>


Documents with tables look kind of ugly and out-of-date on the screen.

Thanks.

Blake



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