Bad news: Your printer driver will most likely "eat" the escape codes.

>Good News, I found the source code. It's on an old floppy
>Bad news: My present workstation does not have a floppy drive.
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>But I remember how to do it.
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>Embed the following in the character stream. First the escape code then the characters.
>Underline is CHR(027)+"&d3D"
>Italic is CHR(027)+"(s1S"
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>I can't fing the bold code, but if you google it, something may pop up.
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>Of course this was in the days of @say and stuff like that.