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Subject: Re: Bold text (in terminal) from Ada?
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 10:43:31 +0200
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On 2022-10-11 10:06, reinert wrote:
> Any simple way to print out bold text from an Ada program?
> In case, how?
> 
> Assume linux.

Looking at PragmARC.Ansi_Tty_Control 
(https://github.com/jrcarter/PragmARC/blob/Ada-12/pragmarc-ansi_tty_control.ads) 
we can see that sending

PragmARC.Ansi_Tty_Control.Bold_Mode

to most Linux terminal emulators initiates bold mode.

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