Bold and Italics

Is it possible to get the output of a pl/sql procedure in Bold and Italics?

user533919 wrote:
Hi Rafu,
Thanks for the answer, but my result is different. This is what I get.
SQL> select htf.bold(htf.italic('foo')) from dual;
HTF.BOLD(HTF.ITALIC('FOO'))
foo
SQL> create function bolditalic(v varchar2) return varchar2 as
2 begin
3 return htf.bold(htf.italic(v));
4 end;
5 /
Function created.
SQL> select bolditalic('foo') from dual;
BOLDITALIC('FOO')
foo
oh ok this works fine in a webbrowser. But is there any way I can display it in SQL PLUS?SQL*Plus is a console based/command line based tool. It has no concept font styles etc. just a plain character set. So you cannot produce font effects in the SQL*Plus output. For that you need a proper GUI interface that does handle such effects.

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