Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Make bold chars in UNIX
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Make bold chars in UNIX Post 302938668 by cjcox on Wednesday 18th of March 2015 10:42:12 AM
Old 03-18-2015
A flat file is just what it is (generally speaking)... it's text. I you don't plan to use a text editor to view the file, then perhaps what you need to output is something like HTML instead (?). That way you have some markup control than can be interpreted by the end device. If you wan to go totally old school though there is also nroff/troff. Basically the format that raw "man pages" are in. Yep... it's old, but still used.... and in some ways, can be better than something like HTML just because of the number of end device handlers out there (including ones for taking the format to HTML).

Does that make sense? Things like "bold" are terminal (viewing or output device) specific.

---------- Post updated at 09:42 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:38 AM ----------

Quote:
Just got up, but if you tell this one to use ncurses so he has bold for his scripts.. you could use TUI as well.
Though, its 'termcap' too, isnt it?
Well... because ncurses support both dbs... technically they'll tell you that you must call it a "termcap" package. But it does both. I only mentioned it because the FreeBSD mailling lists indicated that it's one way to get a terminfo db on FreeBSD.
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Programming

How can I make ls -l in HP-UNIX?

I made a liitle source about that.. BUt I got a trouble when making files'authority.. How can I display them?? p.s.) used struct stat .. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sangjinn
1 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hidden chars in Unix can be replaced?

We have some unseen chars in unix, like '^T's, can be seen with 'cat -v' command. Is there any way, with which, we can replace these ^T s with a space? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: videsh77
1 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how to make a bold text in vi

pls disregard got my question answered . as you can't do bold in vi (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: xzyan
0 Replies

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How can i make this bold

Folks; I'm writing this as a part of a script: echo "col1 hdg|col2hdg|col3hdg|" How can i make these fields shows in Bold text? (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: moe2266
10 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to convert C source from 8bit chars to 16bit chars?

I was using the following bash command inside the emacs compile command to search C++ source code: grep -inr --include='*.h' --include='*.cpp' '"' * | sed "/include/d" | sed "/_T/d" | sed '/^ *\/\//d' | sed '/extern/d' Emacs will then position me in the correct file and at the correct line... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: siegfried
0 Replies

6. Programming

Unix Make

I need tutorial on Make utility on Unix. Any help or link appreciated. many thanks Mirko (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mmipko
3 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

find 4 chars on 2nd line, 44 chars over

I know this should be simple, but I've been manning sed awk grep and find and am stupidly stumped :( I'm trying to use sed (or awk, find, etc) to find 4 characters on the second line of a file.txt 44-47 characters in. I can find lots of sed things for lines, but not characters. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: unclecameron
4 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Bold chars redirect to CSV

Is there any way to redirect characters in bold to .csv file using KSH. I need to open this csv in MS EXCEL. thanks (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: param_it
4 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Removing formats (bold) from UNIX file

Hi , Could you please guide me how to remove formatting (bold text) in a unix file? vi editor showing like this... ^ Cat command showing like this... tl21ss01 tl21ss02 tl21ss03 (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: suresh3566
6 Replies

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Shell script to split data with a delimiter having chars and special chars

Hi Team, I have a file a1.txt with data as follows. dfjakjf...asdfkasj</EnableQuotedIDs><SQL><SelectStatement modified='1' type='string'><! The delimiter string: <SelectStatement modified='1' type='string'><! dlm="<SelectStatement modified='1' type='string'><! The above command is... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: kmanivan82
7 Replies

LEARN ABOUT BSD

man

MAN(7)							 Miscellaneous Information Manual						    MAN(7)

NAME

       man - macros to typeset manual

SYNOPSIS

       nroff  -man  file ...

       troff  -man  file ...

DESCRIPTION

       These macros are used to lay out pages of this manual.  A skeleton page may be found in the file /usr/man/man.template.

       Any  text  argument  t may be zero to six words.  Quotes may be used to include blanks in a `word'.  If text is empty, special treatment is
       applied to the next input line with text to be printed.	In this way .I may be used to italicize a whole line, or .SM may be followed by .B
       to make small bold letters.

       A  prevailing  indent  distance	is  remembered	between successive indented paragraphs, and is reset to default value upon reaching a non-
       indented paragraph.  Default units for indents i are ens.

       Type font and size are reset to default values before each paragraph, and after processing font and size setting macros.

       These strings are predefined by -man:

       *R    `(Reg)', trademark symbol in troff.

       *S    Change to default type size.

FILES

       /usr/share/tmac/tmac.an
       /usr/man/man.template

SEE ALSO

       troff(1), man(1)

BUGS

       Relative indents don't nest.

REQUESTS

			    Request	 Cause If no	Explanation		 Break Argument .B t	     no    t=n.t.l.*Text t is  bold.   .BI
			    t	     no    t=n.t.l. Join  words  of  t	alternating  bold and italic.  .BR t	    no	  t=n.t.l. Join words of t
			    alternating bold and Roman.  .DT	      no    .5i 1i...Restore default tabs.  .HP  i	  yes	i=p.i.*  Set  pre-
			    vailing  indent  to  i.   Begin  paragraph	with  hanging  indent.	.I t	     no    t=n.t.l. Text t is italic.  .IB
			    t	     no    t=n.t.l. Join words of t alternating italic and bold.  .IP x i      yes   x=""     Same as .TP with tag
			    x.	 .IR  t        no    t=n.t.l. Join  words  of t alternating italic and Roman.  .LP	    yes   -	   Same as
			    .PP.  .PD d        no    d=.4v    Interparagraph distance is  d.   .PP	    yes   -	   Begin  paragraph.   Set
			    prevailing	indent	to  .5i.   .RE		yes   -        End of relative indent.	Set prevailing indent to amount of
			    starting   .RS.    .RB   t	      no    t=n.t.l. Join   words   of	 t    alternating    Roman    and    bold.     .RI
			    t	     no    t=n.t.l. Join  words  of  t	alternating  Roman and italic.	.RS i	     yes   i=p.i.   Start relative
			    indent,  move  left  margin  in  distance  i.    Set   prevailing	indent	 to   .5i   for   nested   indents.    .SH
			    t	     yes   t=n.t.l. Subhead.   .SM  t	     no    t=n.t.l. Text  t  is small.	.TH n c x v m	   yes	    -Begin
			    page named n of chapter c; x is extra commentary, e.g. `local', for page foot center; v alters page  foot  left,  e.g.
			    `4th Berkeley Distribution'; m alters page head center, e.g. `Brand X Programmer's Manual'.  Set prevailing indent and
			    tabs to .5i.  .TP i        yes   i=p.i.   Set prevailing indent to i.  Begin indented paragraph with hanging tag given
			    by next text line.	If tag doesn't fit, place it on separate line.

       * n.t.l. = next text line; p.i. = prevailing indent

7th Edition							 October 22, 1996							    MAN(7)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 05:44 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy