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Re: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism? |
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Sun, 10 Nov 2013 06:07:11 +0100 (CET) |
> 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?
I think this is good old Unix philosophy...
> 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.
There is no conflict to groff's `inability' to apply it automatically.
What you really want is a *macro package* which does the job. This is
exactly the same as with TeX and LaTeX: While TeX (the program)
doesn't apply italic correction automatically, there is LaTeX's \emph
command which does it.
Werner
- Re: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2013/11/11
- Re: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?, Dave Kemper, 2013/11/11
- Re: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?, Peter Schaffter, 2013/11/11
- Re: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/11/11
- Re: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2013/11/12
- Re: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/11/11
Re: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2013/11/11
Re: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?,
Werner LEMBERG <=
Re: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?, Dave Kemper, 2013/11/11