Re: [Nano-devel] Applying Debian patches

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014, at 18:58, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:11:24AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > However, this fragment looks like a mistake to me:
> > 
> > -In restricted mode, \fBnano\fP will \fInot\fP:
> > +In restricted mode, \fBnano\fP will \fInot\/\fP:
> 
> Hm, I remember looking at this one. It doesn't appear to do anything, the
> bug reporter mentioned:
> 
>   Space between italic and roman characters adjusted with \/ or \,
> 
> I've tried to find more info but I haven't seen anything helpful on the
> internets, so I dropped that bit for now.

Ah, it is from Bjarni, so it has to do with printing, prettier printing.

See man 7 groff:

\/     Increases the width of the preceding glyph so that the
        spacing between that glyph and the following glyph is
        correct if the following glyph is a roman glyph.

It has no effect on terminals, only on paper.

Benno

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