Re: [Groff] bug in macro '.IR' (was ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages).

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2017-04-27T19:11:29+0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> 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

It'd be nice if 3 year-old bugs could get some feedback from the
maintenance team.

What needs to happen to make that possible?

Regards,
Branden

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