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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 02:02:29 -0500
> 
> if we want to add font markup to info fmt, let's not use something as
> ugly as terminal escape squences.  please design something clean!

How about using what Enriched-Text mode uses in Emacs?  See
etc/enriched.doc in the Emacs distro.