I have an unordered list defined in groff, but the system I'm on can't render the unicode bullet character, so I wanted to use a small o, and I've tried to use \s-2 to decrease the typesize by two, yet, when I open said file with man, the o doesn't look any smaller than the rest of the text around it.
Here's the code I'm using:
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
\fIFiles\fP:
.br
.IP \s-2o 4
\fI\s+2File 1\fP
.IP
\fIFile 2\fP