Follow-up Comment #4, bug #65102 (group groff): I don't think mandoc(1) will ever follow the new practice of setting the .Dt and .TH arguments in italic. There is no benefit, the header and footer line stand out just fine without any markup. Besides, i consider italic as logically wrong for strings that have to be typed verbatim - i know that Branden disagrees and thinks it is just fine to use italic sometimes for keywords, sometimes for placeholders. We can agree to disagree in that respect.
That will likely require patching the italic font out in the OpenBSD groff
port as well, because otherwise, this would be a massive regression
introducing universial failure into every test in the test suite.
The OP's concern might be that an underlined underscore is hard to
distinguished from an underscore that is not underlined - but that
font-dependent (potential) issue is not specific to .Dd, so if that is what
they meant, it's not such a big deal.
Getting rid of the anachronistic ALL CAPS convention for .Dt and .TH is fine.
In particular, it's good for accessibility and precision.
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