On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> wrote: > "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> writes: > > So another thing to know here is that these italic correction escape > > sequences are, yet again, GNU troff extensions. A legacy formatter is > > likely to render them as if the backslash were absent, which is very > > much not what you want in your output. > > Hmm. I am wondering why GNU troff is not making these adjustments > automatically when rendering things.
You can click through the thread to see the numerous replies I received when I asked this question on the groff list 11 years ago. http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2013-11/msg00018.html
