[Techtalk] underlines in console

[BoBB]

I've tested this out and underlines in the console dont work for me
either, used the same man page in Eterm and console, underlines fine in
Eterm but not in console, uses a vesa framebuffer, not sure if that will
make a difference though.

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:11:36PM +0100, Dominik Schramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Carla Schroder wrote:
> 
> >How do I enable underlined words in the console? Example: when I read 
> >man pages in an xterm, certain words are underlined. But opening the 
> >same man page in a console, the underlines are not there. I've read man 
> >terminfo and man ncurses and some others... ? must be answer somewhere!
> > 
> >
> 
> after some reading and trial and error... I don't have a solution but
> I think it's either not that easy or impossible.
> If you find a solution, please share it. I'm interested in it as well.
> 
> When I view a manual page (e.g. man man) certain words appear
> underlined in an xterm and bold in the console.
> 
> This has to do with the terminal capabilities and I think also the font 
> used.
> The manual pages I consulted are
> console(4), console_codes(4), consolechars(8), tput(1), tset(1), terminfo(5)
> 
> console_codes seems to indicate that underlining is always displayed
> as bold or using some color.
> Why is that?
> 
> Both the console and the xterm have the "underline capability",
> but when I do
> 
>  $ echo `tput smul`hello`tput rmul`
> 
> (smul turns underline mode on, rmul turns it off; see terminfo(5))
> 
> then the output is bold in the console and underlined in the xterm.
> So using the same correct terminal capability leads to different
> visual output.
> 
> regards,
> dominik
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Techtalk mailing list
> Techtalk at linuxchix.org
> http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

-- 
/*  BoBB
 *  AIM: Jodokast49 ICQ: 151495596
 *  Jabber: BoBB at jabber.com
 *  http://irgeek.net:8080/
 */