Re: vs formatting in the docs

On 2020-Jun-21, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:

> While looking at making more <command>SQL</command> into links, I
> noticed that <xref> loses the monospace formatting of <command>, and
> can't itself be wrapped in <command>.

Ouch.

> By some trial and error I found that putting <command> inside the
> <refentrytitle> tag propagates the formatting to the <xref> contents.
> We already do this with <application> for (most of) the client and
> server applications.  Is this something we want to do consistently for
> both?

Looking at the ones that use <application>, it looks like manpages are
not damaged, so +1.

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