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[Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?


From: Dave Kemper
Subject: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 16:53:23 -0600

On 11/6/13, I wrote:
> In a number of cases, switching between Libertine Italic and Libertine
> Roman requires an italic correction.  But the \/ and \, escapes, groff's
> mechanism to handle this, have no effect on the output when using the
> Libertine family.

This reminds me of another question I'd wanted to ask about groff's
italic-correction escapes.

Why are these escapes something that a user must insert manually,
rather than groff handling italic corrections automatically?  It is
hard to imagine a case where the user would prefer that italic and Roman
characters overlap at the transition.  And it seems to me that groff's
default behavior ought to be to produce good typesetting, and require
user intervention if the user wants ugly results, rather than the way
it currently works, which is the exact opposite.



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