[minor self-correction]

At 2025-08-24T14:05:43-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> You already avoid many of these problems by using font selection
> escape sequences instead of font style macros, but this issue is worth
> knowing about if `"` characters appear in (sub)section headings

We're good up to this point...

> or as `TP` paragraph tags.

...but that bit's not correct.  The tag of a `TP` paragraph is not a
macro argument, but captured by an input trap, so it doesn't undergo
macro argument expansion.

More correct would be to point out the `mark` argument to the `IP`
macro.

groff_man(7):
     .IP [mark [indentation]]
            Set an indented paragraph with an optional mark. ...

Some other _groff man_ extension macros also take textual arguments, but
I don't think podlators uses any of these.

groff_man(7):
     .SY keyword [suffix]
            Begin synopsis. ...

     .MR topic [manual‐section [trailing‐text]]
            (since groff 1.23) Set a man page cross reference as
            “topic(manual‐section)”.

     .MT address
     .ME [trailing‐text]
            Identify address as an RFC 6068 addr‐spec for a “mailto:”
            URI with the text between the two macro calls as the link
            text. ...

     .UR uri
     .UE [trailing‐text]
            Identify uri as an RFC 3986 URI hyperlink with the text
            between the two macro calls as the link text. ...

Regards,
Branden

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