Actually, the GNU tools (in particular grotty) advanced forward to 1976, and are capable of ECMA-48 control sequences that render actual italics and boldface li

Actually, the GNU tools (in particular grotty) advanced forward to 1976, and are capable of ECMA-48 control sequences that render actual italics and boldface like the source markup describes. It is just that the people who make operating systems have gone out of their way to disable this. * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/italics-in-manuals.html http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/italics-in-manuals.html