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Re:I Didn’t Learn Unix by Reading All the Manpages by JdeBP on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @11:40PM (#36066828)
Compare what one sees when the text processing works, and what parts are italicized.

* https://tty0.social/@JdeBP/110427220635184435

It even prettifies those ``'' quotes, notice. This is vanilla older FreeBSD man, using groff, but actually allowing groff to do the things that it is capable of.

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Re:I Didn’t Learn Unix by Reading All the Manpages by vulcan01 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:29AM (#36072010)
This matches what I see using less as manpager and every terminal I have installed on MacOS (Apple Terminal, kitty, alacritty+Tmux, iTerm).
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