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\title{An \pkg{l3doc} bug}
\author{Joel C. Salomon}
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Normally, this will not have italic correction, but here it does; why?
| \textit{half}. | \textit{half}.
Compare:
|{\itshape half\/}. | {\itshape half\/}. (wrong; but what |\textit| produces)
| {\itshape half}. | {\itshape half}. (right; and what |\textit| does
everywhere else)
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