Previously, many people confused these for actual parameters, since it's hard to distinguish a ',' from ';'. By removing bold/italics from these, it will be easier to distinguish them. The cases have been found with a script: $ find -type f \ | xargs grep -l '^\.TH ' \ | sort \ | xargs mansect SYNOPSIS \ | man /dev/stdin \ | grep -e '^[^ ]' -e '[^ ]( [^ )].*[^)];' \ | less; Reported-by: Mark Naughton <mnaughto@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mark Naughton <mnaughto@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>