diff --git a/t/expansion/etoolbox.pdf b/t/expansion/etoolbox.pdf
index b4c93ae65..f1bdd12d1 100644
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diff --git a/t/expansion/etoolbox.tex b/t/expansion/etoolbox.tex
index c17760411..3b2cb6f1d 100644
--- a/t/expansion/etoolbox.tex
+++ b/t/expansion/etoolbox.tex
@@ -210,6 +210,11 @@ \subsection{Patching}
 prepending to paramacro: \pretocmd\paramacro{Pre. }{ok}{fail}\newline
 \paramacro{first}{second}
 
+\def\spaceymacro{{Bold to \bfseries italic}}
+\spaceymacro
+\patchcmd\spaceymacro{\bfseries}{\it}{}{}
+\spaceymacro
+
 \subsection{Boolean Flags}
 
 \newbool{boolvar}
diff --git a/t/expansion/etoolbox.xml b/t/expansion/etoolbox.xml
index c9dab5008..b17f4e9cb 100644
--- a/t/expansion/etoolbox.xml
+++ b/t/expansion/etoolbox.xml
@@ -217,6 +217,10 @@ xABYZ.</p>
       <para xml:id="S3.SS4.p7">
         <p>prepending to paramacro: ok<break/>Pre. first and second. Post</p>
       </para>
+      <para xml:id="S3.SS4.p8">
+        <p>Bold to <text font="bold">italic</text>
+Bold to <text font="italic">italic</text></p>
+      </para>
     </subsection>
     <subsection inlist="toc" xml:id="S3.SS5">
       <tags>