Subject: Re: bug#46808: Man page of "tail"

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:02:55 +0100

On Feb 27 2021, Reuti wrote:

> I'm not a `groff` expert, but the sequence "\,some-text\/" appears a couple of times. What effect does it have for the formatting as the "," and "/" are not output?

\, and \/ add some space as italic correction, see (groff) Ligatures and
Kerning.

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