Re: get rid of <foreignphrase> tags in the docs?

John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> While looking at the proposed removal of the v2 protocol, I noticed that we
> italicize some, but not all, instances of 'per se', 'pro forma', and 'ad
> hoc'. I'd say these are widespread enough in formal registers of English
> that they hardly need to be called out as foreign, so I propose removing
> the tags for those words.

+1, nobody italicizes those in normal usage.

> The other case is 'voilà', found in rules.sgml. The case for italics here
> is stronger, but looking at that file, I actually think a more
> generic-sounding phrase here would be preferable.

Yeah, seeing that we only use that in one place, I think we could do
without it.  Looks like something as pedestrian as "The results are:"
would do fine.

			regards, tom lane