[bug #64238] [docs] Simplify the explanations of "italic corrections"

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64238>

                 Summary: [docs] Simplify the explanations of "italic
corrections"
                   Group: GNU roff
               Submitter: bjarniig
               Submitted: Tue 23 May 2023 12:28:35 AM UTC
                Category: General
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Date: Tue 23 May 2023 12:28:35 AM UTC By: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
Subject: [docs] Simplify the explanations of "italic corrections"

  I find the explanations of the "italic corrections" (escape sequences
'\/' and '\,') too complicated and not easy to remember.

  Suggestion:

  \/

  Used to adjust space between a slanting (italic, oblique, (symbol
</>)) glyph and an upright one (symbol <|>), or pictorially: </>\/<|>.
  Or to remember: the slanting line segments are alternating and
a slanting line segment is next to <|>.

  \,

  Used to adjust space between an upright glyph (symbol <|>) an a
slanting one (symbol </>, or pictorially: <|>\,</>.
  Or to remember: the slanting line segments are alternating and
a slanting line segment is next to <|>.








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