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| db to Lynn McGuire |
| Re: Bold print |
| 13 Jan 24 11:50:43 |
From: dieterhansbritz@gmail.com On 13.01.2024 05.14, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 1/12/2024 7:54 AM, db wrote: >> I have a program that reads a file of birthdays and prints >> out impending ones when I activate my (Linux) console. >> It first prints a header >> >> print '(/" Birthdays:")' >> >> Is it possible to get it to print that in bold or a colour? >> If yes, how? > > Ok, I'll bite. So what is the device that you are printing to ? > > If the device is a screen then there are control codes that you must > print also. > > If the device is a file then, no way. This is the reason that HTML was > invented. > > Lynn > > It's to the console screen. -- Dieter Britz --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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