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

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:31 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> 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.

Now that protocol v2 is gone, here's a patch to remove those tags.

> > 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.

Done that way.

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