Dave Kemper <saint.s...@gmail.com> writes: > 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
My reading of that thread is that doing the adjustments automatically requires precise knowledge of the fonts involved - something that would be even harder to do in Org (Org does automatic org markup -> groff markup conversion). So, it looks like these fine details are out of interest for ox-man.el library. I see no good way to do it automatically. Users can always use direct markup injection like @@man:\,@@ if they need to fine-tune the man output. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode maintainer, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
