On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 10:14:59 +0200
Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> Manfred Lotz <manfred.l...@arcor.de> writes:
>
> > Take this
> >
> > <--------------snip---------------->
> > #+TITLE: mycmd
> > * NAME
> > mycmd - does very important things
> > * SYNOPSIS
> > mycmd.pl -u bla [-R] [-A] [-n] [-a]
> > * DESCRIPTION
> > mycmd could be configured by setting environment variable MYCMD_OPT
> > <--------------snap---------------->
> >
> > The man page looks like this:
> >
> > mycmd(1) General Commands
> > Manual mycmd(1)
> >
> >
> >
> > NAME
> > mycmd - does very important things
> >
> > SYNOPSIS
> > mycmd.pl -u bla [-R] [-A] [-n] [-a]
> >
> > DESCRIPTION
> > mycmd could be configured by setting environment variable
> > MYCMDOPT
> >
> >
> >
> > As you can see the _ (underscore) in MYCMD_OPT vanished.
>
> In this case, "_OPT" is a subscript, which is translated into
> "MYCMD\d\s-2OPT\s+2\u". For some reason, groff doesn't recognize this
> markup.
>
> Anyway, you probably don't want a subscript here. Locally, you can use
> a macro instead:
>
> MYCMD\under{}OPT
>
> or simply disable subscript (and superscript) for the whole document:
>
> #+OPTIONS: ^:nil
>
>
In this case I prefer the OPTINS version. However, it is good to know I
just could use \under.
Thanks a lot for your help.
--
Manfred
