Subject: Re: bug#42219: 26.3; WoMan italic `\,VARIABLE\/ representation

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 12:17:47 +0200

Alper Alimoglu <[email-masked]> writes:

> @wasamasa answered:
> Congratulations, you've found a bug.  \, and \/ are
> space-adjusting escape sequences for groff this package doesn't handle
> yet. https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/groff.html#Ligatures-and-Kerning
> explains how they work, but it's unclear what part of the package to
> adjust for that.

I think the right solution here is just make woman ignore these kerning
operators, so I've done that in Emacs 28.

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