Re: [BUG] "\fC" macro in ox-man.el [9.6.15 (release_9.6.15 @ /usr/share/emacs/29.2/lisp/org/)]

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Dave Kemper <saint.snit@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
>> "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@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.

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