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Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 15:58:11 +0100

Hi,

Ingo wrote:
>     Manuals tend to have so much font jumping anyway
>     that they are often not very visually pleasing and look noisy.

That's true.  And my crude understanding of typography is that 𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑐 is
normally used for emphasis, with 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝 being kept in reserve for that odd
time when the reader wants to find, or be attracted to, that term in a
page of otherwise non-bold text.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.
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