>> I agree with Ingo. Since ages such items have been tagged with
>> boldface in most manpages.
>
> Oh, bummer. Vetoes from 2 committers is more of a fight than I
> want.
:-) It's definitely no fight – we are tremendously grateful for your
work!
>> Other man page readers like the one in the Midnight Commander (mc)
>> use colours instead (yellow for boldface, red for italics).
>
> Yes, and the Real Fix(tm) for this is a semantic macro extension to
> man(7) so that people can set some registers to impose their own
> stylesheet on man page output if desired.
Alas, this ship has sailed 30 years ago.
>> As Ingo says: only placeholders get italic, the rest gets bold
>> tagging.
>
> That's a much broader mandate than what you quoted above. It would
> mean I also need to revert my recent changes of environment
> variables to italics, and abort my intentions to migrate file
> specifications to italics.
Yes, and sorry for not noticing it earlier. For me, bold is the (bad)
substitution for typewriter text not available in man macros.
Werner
