On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:54:21AM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2017-04-26T15:50:26+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
[...]
> > ??? .IR being is just a shorthand for `\f' and `\^' that can be done
> > manually when needed, e.g. `.TH'.
>
> FYI, .IR does not give you this "italic correction" in groff 1.22.3:
>
> .de1 IR
> . if \\n[.$] \{\
> . ds an-result \&\f[I]\\$1\f[R]\"
> . shift
> . while (\\n[.$] >= 2) \{\
> . as an-result \/\\$1\f[I]\,\\$2\f[R]\"
> . shift 2
> . \}
> . if \\n[.$] .as an-result \/\\$1\"
> \\*[an-result]
> . ft R
> . \}
> ..
>
I reported this bug (and in '.IB') in August 2014, #42906
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Bjarni I. Gislason
