[BUG] italics run past where they should

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Branden,

I'm not sure if this is a groff(1) bug, or less(1), or who knows...

I've seen it sporadically, but when I tried to reproduce it, I didn't 
remember how I had triggered it, so I couldn't report it.  Now I can 
consistently reproduce it.

I'd expect the issue to be in less(1), because of how I trigger it, but 
it's weird, because I can't reproduce it with mandoc and less, so I 
attribute it to groff(1) for the moment.

So, to trigger the bug, do the following potion:

# I reproduced it in clone(2), installed from my git tree,
# but I also reproduced it with the clone(2) from my system,
# which hapens to be manpages-dev 5.13-1, so it should be easily
# reproducible.

$ man clone

# Now have a look at the synopsis.
# You'll notice (or actually not notice) no weird formatting,
# because there isn't

# Then, within less(1), search for 'flags' with /flags

/flags

# This should change the underscoring of some words after the match.
# If you close and open again the man page,
# you'll see the good formatting again.

# If I run the following command, then I can't reproduce it,
# which is why I suspect that it's a problem in groff(1).

$ man -w clone | xargs mandoc | less
/flags


I'm running:
$ groff --version
GNU groff version 1.23.0.rc1.2366-0328


Cheers,

Alex

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