I noticed that groff might format something like
".... some_text(more_text) ...." in such a way that it comes out as ".... some_text(" "more_text) ...." in other words, although there is no space after the opening parenthesis, the latter is treated as the word ending. question: is this intended or a bug? is their a straightforward way to enforce treatment as a single word? remark: I would argue that only white space (and possibly dashes?) should be treated as a word ending. or formulated differently: not every parenthesis should be treated as a word start. caveat: I know that usually there should be a blank in front of the parenthesis. in my case the problem occurs in a bibliography where the above is examplified by "Radiology(239(3))" and this is the way it comes out of `refer' in the citation style used and "....Radiology(" "239(3)) ...." looks bad... joerg