[bug #61028] [refer-ms] sets comma after title in italics, should be roman

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #61028 (project groff):

[comment #1 comment #1:]
>   "refer-ms" does this correctly.
> 
>   Punctuation marks are set to match the type of their adjoining words;
> check a style guide.
> 

There's no controlling style guide for *roff citations.  (There are _many_
candidates that could be selected; I gather Peter Schaffter chose MLA for
mom(7).)  The practice in groff documentation is in fact to _not_ honor the
rule you cite, following the same principle that motivates "logical" quotation
style.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/logical_quotation

I'm not wedded to the change I proposed, but if we're going to reject it in
favor of a style guide's directives regarding source citation, we should
identify one that is sufficiently detailed to address the cases we need to
handle, conform to it, and document the style in use.

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