Re: [docbook-apps] how should manpage 2nd level headings include quoted code?

[maxwell <maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu>]

On 2016-08-08 16:32, Bob Stayton wrote:
> ...I seem to recall that while \fP will work in simple
> cases to restore the previous font, it does not work when inline font
> changes are nested.  For example:
>
> the  sequence  ‘‘\fB...\fR...\fI...\fP...\fP’’
>
> will result in italics afterward instead of bold.  That's because the
> font changes are not a true stack, just a single "previous" font.

IIUC, this is the reason that LaTeX (an entirely different typesetting 
system, of course) now discourages the use of the old commands \it and 
\bf, in favor of \textit, textbf etc.

   Mike Maxwell