Re: [Groff] rationale for italic correction mechanism?

[Peter Schaffter]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013, Dave Kemper wrote:
> It's unfortunate that there's not more development collaboration between
> groff and Heirloom troff.

I concur.  HT's paragraph-at-once is noticeably superior to groff's 
line-at-a-time formatting paradigm, and I'd love to see it
implemented in groff.

I think groff's rationale for requiring user-entry of italic
correction is sound.  Unlike pair-wise kerning, there are as many
places where italic correction isn't desirable as there are ones
where it is.

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Peter Schaffter
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