Hello Joel, As I commented on the github issue, this appears to be a bug in the trace package: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{trace} \begin{document} \textit{half}. \end{document} Regards, Bruno On 8/8/12, Joel C. Salomon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I posted this to <https://github.com/latex3/svn-mirror/issues/96>. > > This is specifically an l3doc bug; \textit produces correct lack of > italic correction under ltxdoc. > > —Joel >