Which behaviour is correct?  Neither seems so to me: for the former, it
makes sense that only the literal bar should delimit; for the latter, no
other special character (I tested them all) has an interim space.

Answering my own question... obviously the \*(Ba is being re-written as a pipe and inherits the pipe's behaviour, which is what is causing the issue (being a pre-defined string and not a special character, which I failed to notice). This seems to be a compatibility issue with older groff and thus not a bug.

Should it not be "-a -|", then "-|"?


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