Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> It's simply markup defined by DocBook to indicate what type the content to be
> replaced is, in this case a parameter. While it might not make any visual
> difference in our rendering, someone might be rendering the docs in another way
> where it does show a difference (like using a different font or decoration to
> differentiate parameters from functions etc).
That's the theory anyway. But we've been so massively inconsistent
in whether to use class markup or not (no doubt exactly because it
makes no difference for us) that I would expect a rendering where
it does make a difference to look really awful.
regards, tom lane