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### 5.3 Faces

These options control the display faces that WoMan uses to format the man page.

`woman-fontify`

  A boolean value. If non-`nil` then WoMan assumes that face support is available. It defaults to a non-`nil` value if the display supports either colors or different fonts.

`woman-italic-face`

  Face for italic font in man pages. Default: italic, underlined, foreground red. This is overkill! `troff` uses just italic; `nroff` uses just underline. You should probably select either italic or underline as you prefer, but not both, although italic and underline work together perfectly well!

`woman-bold-face`

  Face for bold font in man pages. Default: bold, foreground blue.

`woman-unknown-face`

  Face for all unknown fonts in man pages. Default: foreground brown. Brown is a good compromise: it is distinguishable from the default but not enough so as to make font errors look terrible. (Files that use non-standard fonts seem to do so badly or in idiosyncratic ways!)

`woman-addition-face`

  Face for all additions made by WoMan to man pages. Default: foreground orange.