"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote:
|At 2017-05-01T19:30:02+0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|> "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote:
|>|Please find a patch attached.
...
|> I for one always found those one/two/one/two/.. macros very
|> suspicious, but now i see actual use cases.
|
|One of the advantages of some of them is that, if people think to use
|them, they relieve the writer of having to remember to supply italic
|corrections:
I came from TeX, and luckily groff then had strings with arguments
already!
.STRING I \\,\\fI\\$*\\fP\\/
is \*[I almost] as easy (especially with US keyboard) as
\def\it{\edef\@font@currIsBold{\FALSE}\@font@setFont{it}}%
\def\tit#1{{\it#1\/}}
the \tit{version} of \TeX. Almost as clean.
--steffen
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