From: James Coglan <jcoglan@...>
Date: 2008-07-18T22:06:02+09:00
Subject: Re: show text in italics.

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2008/7/18 Vamsi Krishna <vamsikrishna.naidu@gmail.com>:

> Hi ,
>
>  well, is there any logic to display a text in italics in ruby.
>
>  like a simple program that shows text in italics?
>
>  ex:  def text
>      puts" hi to all"
>      end
>   puts text
>
>  so i need to display "hi to all " in italics.



See this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_color

In theory you could do

puts "\e[3mhi to all\e[0m"

But apparently italics is not widely supported. Bold and underline seem to
work in my Ubuntu terminal (\e[1m and \e[4m respectively).

James
http://github.com/jcoglan

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