Formatting fixes

Changes

@@ -17,6 +17,17 @@ Global changes
 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
 places.
 
+Make all function and page cross references that were italicised bold
+(which is how the majority of function and page cross references 
+were already done).
+
+Change instances of things like "NULL-terminated string" to 
+"null-terminated string"
+
+Pathnames, structures, and arguments that were bold were changed to italics
+
+Instances of the constant "NULL" that were bold-faced were made unformatted
+(which is how most instances of "NULL" already were.)
 
 Changes to individual pages
 ---------------------------

man2/epoll_ctl.2

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ The
 describes the object linked to the file descriptor
 .IR fd .
 The
-.B struct epoll_event
+.I struct epoll_event
 is defined as :
 .sp
 .nf

man2/epoll_wait.2

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ equal to zero makes
 .BR epoll_wait (2)
 to return immediately even if no events are available ( return code equal to zero ).
 The
-.B struct epoll_event
+.I struct epoll_event
 is defined as :
 .sp
 .nf

man2/getdomainname.2

@@ -57,9 +57,7 @@ For
 .BR getdomainname ()
 under libc:
 .I name
-is
+is NULL or
-.B NULL
-or
 .I name
 is longer than
 .I len

man2/getrlimit.2

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ and
 .BR setrlimit ()
 get and set resource limits respectively.
 Each resource has an associated soft and hard limit, as defined by the 
-.B rlimit
+.I rlimit
 structure (the
 .I rlim
 argument to both

man2/gettimeofday.2

@@ -56,8 +56,9 @@ can get and set the time as well as a timezone.
 The    
 .I tv
 argument is a 
-.B timeval 
+.I struct timeval 
-struct, as specified  in <sys/time.h>:
+(as specified  in 
+.IR <sys/time.h> ):
 .sp
 .nf
 struct timeval {
@@ -73,8 +74,7 @@ and gives the number of seconds and microseconds since the Epoch (see
 The 
 .I tz
 argument is a 
-.B timezone 
+.IR "struct timezone" :
-:
 .sp
 .nf
 struct timezone {
@@ -151,8 +151,9 @@ is on local time, and that it has to be incremented by this amount
 to get UTC system time.
 No doubt it is a bad idea to use this feature.
 .PP
-The following macros are defined to operate on a struct timeval :
+The following macros are defined to operate on a 
-.br
+.IR "struct timeval" :
+.sp
 .nf
 #define	timerisset(tvp)\\
 .ti +8
@@ -213,9 +214,12 @@ and the defines for
 are (since glibc2.2.2) only available if
 .B _BSD_SOURCE
 is defined (either explicitly, or implicitly, by not defining
-_POSIX_SOURCE or compiling with the \-ansi flag).
+.B _POSIX_SOURCE 
+or compiling with the \-ansi flag).
 .LP
-Traditionally, the fields of struct timeval were longs.
+Traditionally, the fields of 
+.I struct timeval 
+were longs.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 SVr4, 4.3BSD. POSIX 1003.1-2001 describes
 .BR gettimeofday ()

man2/link.2

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ even if the same filesystem is mounted on both.)
 Hard links, as created by
 .BR link (),
 cannot span filesystems. Use
-.B symlink
+.BR symlink ()
 if this is required.
 
 POSIX.1-2001 says that

man2/mknod.2

@@ -161,9 +161,9 @@ is unspecified."
 
 Under Linux, this call cannot be used to create directories.
 One should make directories with
-.BR mkdir ,
+.BR mkdir (2),
 and FIFOs with
-.BR mkfifo .
+.BR mkfifo (2).
 .\" Unix domain sockets with .BR socket " (and " bind ),
 
 There are many infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS.  Some

man2/mmap.2

@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ the process or are to be shared with other references.  It has bits
 .B MAP_FIXED
 Do not select a different address than the one specified.
 If the memory region specified by
-.B start
+.I start
 and
-.B len
+.I len
 overlaps pages of any existing mapping(s), then the overlapped
 part of the existing mapping(s) will be discarded.
 If the specified address cannot be used,
@@ -216,16 +216,16 @@ to these pages will generate SIGSEGV. It is not an error if the
 indicated range does not contain any mapped pages.
 
 For file-backed mappings, the
-.B st_atime
+.I st_atime
 field for the mapped file may be updated at any time between the
 .BR mmap ()
 and the corresponding unmapping; the first reference to a mapped
 page will update the field if it has not been already.
 .LP
 The
-.B st_ctime
+.I st_ctime
 and
-.B st_mtime
+.I st_mtime
 field for a file mapped with PROT_WRITE and MAP_SHARED will be updated after
 a write to the mapped region, and before a subsequent
 .BR msync ()

man2/msgget.2

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ capability.
 .TP
 .B EEXIST
 A message queue exists for
-.B key
+.I key
 and
 .I msgflg
 specified both

man2/nanosleep.2

@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@ remaining time into the structure pointed to by
 .IR rem
 unless 
 .I rem
-is
+is NULL.
-.BR NULL .
 The value of
 .I *rem
 can then be used to call 

man2/open.2

@@ -191,9 +191,9 @@ in which case the lock is also successful.
 .B O_LARGEFILE
 (LFS)
 Allow files whose sizes cannot be represented in an
-.B off_t
+.I off_t
 (but can be represented in an
-.BR off64_t )
+.IR off64_t )
 to be opened.
 .TP
 .B O_NOATIME

man2/pivot_root.2

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ They must be directories.
 the current root.
 .IP \- 3
 \fIput_old\fP must be underneath \fInew_root\fP, i.e. adding a non-zero
-number of \fB/..\fP to the string pointed to by \fIput_old\fP must yield
+number of \fI/..\fP to the string pointed to by \fIput_old\fP must yield
 the same directory as \fInew_root\fP.
 .IP \- 3
 No other file system may be mounted on \fIput_old\fP.
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ If the current root is not a mount point (e.g. after \fBchroot(2)\fP or
 mount point of that file system is mounted on \fIput_old\fP.
 .SH NOTES
 \fInew_root\fP does not have to be a mount point. In this case,
-\fB/proc/mounts\fP will show the mount point of the file system containing
+\fI/proc/mounts\fP will show the mount point of the file system containing
-\fInew_root\fP as root (\fB/\fP).
+\fInew_root\fP as root (\fI/\fP).
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 On success, zero is returned.  On error, \-1 is returned, and
 \fIerrno\fP is set appropriately.

man2/rmdir.2

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ is not, in fact, a directory.
 .B ENOTEMPTY
 .I pathname
 contains entries other than
-.BR . " and " .. " ."
+.IR . " and " .. " ."
 .TP
 .B EPERM
 The directory containing

man2/semop.2

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ elements in the array pointed to by
 .I sops
 specifies an operation to be performed on a single semaphore.
 The elements of this structure are of type
-.BR "struct sembuf" ,
+.IR "struct sembuf" ,
 containing the following members:
 .sp
 .in +4n
@@ -296,8 +296,7 @@ set to
 is performed).
 If the
 .I timeout
-parameter is
+parameter isNULL,
-.BR NULL ,
 then
 .BR semtimedop ()
 behaves exactly like

man2/shmop.2

@@ -61,15 +61,13 @@ with one of the following criteria:
 .LP
 If
 .I shmaddr
-is
+is NULL,
-.BR NULL ,
 the system chooses a suitable (unused) address at which to attach
 the segment.
 .LP
 If
 .I shmaddr
-isn't
+isn't NULL
-.B NULL
 and
 .B SHM_RND
 is specified in
@@ -105,8 +103,7 @@ and continuing for the size of the segment.
 error would result if a mapping already exists in this address range.)
 In this case,
 .I shmaddr
-must not be
+must not be NULL.
-.BR NULL .
 .PP
 The
 .BR brk (2)
@@ -210,8 +207,7 @@ or
 .B SHM_REMAP
 was specified and
 .I shmaddr
-was
+was NULL.
-.BR NULL .
 .TP
 .B ENOMEM
 Could not allocate memory for the descriptor or for the page tables.
@@ -228,8 +224,7 @@ Using
 .BR shmat ()
 with
 .I shmaddr
-equal to
+equal to NULL
-.B NULL
 is the preferred, portable way of attaching a shared memory segment.
 Be aware that the shared memory segment attached in this way
 may be attached at different addresses in different processes.

man2/sigwaitinfo.2

@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ removes the delivered signal from the calling process's list of pending
 signals and returns the signal number as its function result.
 If the
 .I info
-argument is not
+argument is not NULL,
-.BR NULL ,
 then it returns a structure of type
 .I siginfo_t
 (see
@@ -121,9 +120,7 @@ or
 .BR sigtimedwait ())
 and does not establish handlers for these signals.
 .PP
-POSIX leaves the meaning of a
+POSIX leaves the meaning of a NULL value for the
-.B NULL
-value for the
 .I timeout
 argument of
 .BR sigtimedwait ()

man2/statfs.2

@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ was inspired by the 4.4BSD one
 Solaris, Irix and POSIX have a system call
 .BR statvfs (2)
 that returns a
-.B "struct statvfs"
+.I "struct statvfs"
 (defined in
 .IR "<sys/statvfs.h>" )
 containing an
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ containing an
 Linux, SunOS, HPUX, 4.4BSD have a system call
 .BR statfs ()
 that returns a
-.B "struct statfs"
+.I "struct statfs"
 (defined in
 .IR "<sys/vfs.h>" )
 containing a
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ containing a
 where
 .I fsid_t
 is defined as
-.BR "struct { int val[2]; }" .
+.IR "struct { int val[2]; }" .
 The same holds for FreeBSD, except that it uses the include file
 .IR "<sys/mount.h>" .
 

man2/sysctl.2

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ struct __sysctl_args {
 .PP
 This call does a search in a tree structure, possibly resembling
 a directory tree under
-.BR /proc/sys ,
+.IR /proc/sys ,
 and if the requested item is found calls some appropriate routine
 to read or modify the value.
 

man2/wait.2

@@ -161,8 +161,7 @@ signal (see
 .PP
 If
 .I status
-is not
+is not NULL,
-.BR NULL ,
 .BR wait ()
 and
 .BR waitpid ()

man2/wait4.2

@@ -99,9 +99,7 @@ for further details.
 .PP
 If
 .I rusage
-is not
+is not NULL, the
-.BR NULL ,
-the
 .I struct rusage
 to which it points will be filled with accounting information
 about the child.

man3/cmsg.3

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ and received by calling
 See their manual pages for more information. 
 .PP
 Ancillary data is a sequence of 
-.B struct cmsghdr 
+.I struct cmsghdr 
 structures with appended data. This sequence should only be accessed
 using the macros described in this manual page and never directly. 
 See the specific protocol man pages for the available control message types. 
@@ -68,10 +68,8 @@ data buffer associated with the passed
 returns the next valid 
 .B cmsghdr 
 after the passed 
-.B cmsghdr. 
+.B cmsghdr . 
-It returns 
+It returns NULL when there isn't enough space left in the buffer.
-.B NULL 
-when there isn't enough space left in the buffer.
 .PP
 .BR CMSG_ALIGN (),
 given a length, returns it including the required alignment. This is a 

man3/confstr.3

@@ -64,9 +64,7 @@ be found.
 .PP
 If
 .I buf
-is not
+is not NULL and 
-.BR NULL ,
-and 
 .I len
 is not zero,
 .BR confstr ()
@@ -84,8 +82,7 @@ If
 .I len
 is zero and
 .I buf
-is 
+is NULL,
-.BR NULL ,
 .BR confstr ()
 just returns the value as defined below.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"

man3/ctermid.3

@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ returns a string which is the pathname for the current controlling terminal for
 process. 
 If
 .I s
-is
+is NULL,
-.BR NULL ,
 a static buffer is used, otherwise
 .I s
 points to a buffer used to hold the terminal pathname.
@@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ SVID, Issue 1; POSIX.1
 .SH BUGS
 The path returned may not uniquely identify the controlling
 terminal; it may, for example, be
-.BR /dev/tty .
+.IR /dev/tty .
 .PP
 It is not assured that the program can open the terminal.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"

man3/exec.3

@@ -85,8 +85,7 @@ strings that represent the argument list available to the executed program.
 The first argument, by convention, should point to the file name associated
 with the file being executed.  The list of arguments
 .I must
-be terminated by a
+be terminated by a NULL
-.B NULL
 pointer, and, since these are variadic functions, this pointer must be cast
 .BR "(char *) NULL" .
 .PP
@@ -99,22 +98,18 @@ represent the argument list available to the new program.  The first
 argument, by convention, should point to the file name associated with the
 file being executed.  The array of pointers
 .I must
-be terminated by a
+be terminated by a NULL pointer.
-.B NULL
-pointer.
 .PP
 The
 .BR execle ()
 function also specifies the environment of the executed process by following
-the
+the NULL
-.B NULL
 pointer that terminates the list of arguments in the parameter list or the
 pointer to the argv array with an additional parameter.  This additional
 parameter is an array of pointers to null-terminated strings and
 .I must
-be terminated by a
+be terminated by a NULL pointer.  
-.B NULL
+The other functions take the environment for the new process
-pointer.  The other functions take the environment for the new process
 image from the external variable
 .I environ
 in the current process.

man3/fflush.3

@@ -57,8 +57,7 @@ is unaffected.
 .PP
 If the
 .I stream
-argument is
+argument is NULL,
-.BR NULL ,
 .BR fflush ()
 flushes
 .I all

man3/fopen.3

@@ -172,9 +172,8 @@ and
 .BR freopen ()
 return a
 .I FILE
-pointer.  Otherwise,
+pointer.  
-.B NULL
+Otherwise, NULL is returned and the global variable
-is returned and the global variable
 .I errno
 is set to indicate the error.
 .SH ERRORS

man3/getaddrinfo.3

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ or
 to prepare a client or a server socket.
 .PP
 The
-.B addrinfo
+.I addrinfo
 structure used by this function contains the following members:
 .sp
 .nf
@@ -91,13 +91,13 @@ structure used by this function contains the following members:
 sets
 .I res
 to point to a dynamically-allocated linked list of
-.B addrinfo
+.I addrinfo
 structures, linked by the
 .I ai_next
 member.
 There are several reasons why
 the linked list may have more than one
-.B addrinfo
+.I addrinfo
 structure, including: if the network host is
 multi-homed; or if the same service
 is available from multiple socket protocols (one
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ A NULL
 .I hints
 specifies that any network address or protocol is acceptable.
 If this parameter is not NULL it points to an
-.B addrinfo
+.I addrinfo
 structure
 whose
 .IR ai_family ,
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ flag suppresses any potentially lengthy network host address lookups.
 The
 .BR getaddrinfo (3)
 function creates a linked list of
-.B addrinfo
+.I addrinfo
 structures, one for each network address subject to any restrictions
 imposed by the
 .I hints
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ parameter.
 The
 .I ai_canonname
 field of the first of these 
-.B addrinfo 
+.I addrinfo 
 structures is set to point to the official name of the host, if
 .I hints.ai_flags
 includes the

man3/getcwd.3

@@ -49,9 +49,7 @@ which is of length
 .PP
 If the current absolute path name would require a buffer longer than
 .I size
-elements,
+elements, NULL is returned, and
-.B NULL
-is returned, and
 .I errno
 is set to
 .BR ERANGE ;
@@ -70,9 +68,8 @@ allocates the buffer dynamically using
 .BR malloc ()
 if
 .I buf
-is
+is NULL on call.  
-.B NULL
+In this case, the allocated buffer has the length
-on call.  In this case, the allocated buffer has the length
 .I size
 unless
 .I size
@@ -116,7 +113,7 @@ and may even be unlimited. For portability and security reasons, use of
 .BR getwd ()
 is deprecated.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
-.B NULL
+NULL
 on failure with
 .I errno
 set accordingly, and

man3/getdate.3

@@ -95,13 +95,13 @@ If no date is given, but we know the hour, then that hour is taken
 to be the first such hour equal to or after the current hour.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 When successful, this function returns a pointer to a
-.BR "struct tm" .
+.IR "struct tm" .
 Otherwise, it returns NULL and sets the global variable
-.BR getdate_err .
+.IR getdate_err .
 Changes to
 .I errno
 are unspecified.  The following values for
-.B getdate_err
+.I getdate_err
 are defined:
 .TP 4n
 .B 1
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Invalid input specification.
 Since 
 .BR getdate ()
 is not reentrant because of the use of 
-.B getdate_err
+.I getdate_err
 and the static buffer to return the result in, glibc provides a
 thread-safe variant.  The functionality is the same.  The result
 is returned in the buffer pointed to by

man3/getipnodebyname.3

@@ -165,21 +165,21 @@ parameter specifies one of the following values:
 The
 .I addr
 parameter points to a
-.B struct in_addr
+.I struct in_addr
 and
 .I len
 must be set to
-.BR "sizeof(struct in_addr)" .
+.IR "sizeof(struct in_addr)" .
 .TP
 .B AF_INET6
 The
 .I addr
 parameter points to a
-.B struct in6_addr
+.I struct in6_addr
 and
 .I len
 must be set to
-.BR "sizeof(struct in6_addr)" .
+.IR "sizeof(struct in6_addr)" .
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 A null pointer is returned if an error occurred, and
 .I error_num
@@ -236,11 +236,11 @@ parameter was
 .TP
 .B h_length
 This field will be set to
-.B sizeof(struct in_addr)
+.I sizeof(struct in_addr)
 if
 .I h_addrtype
 is AF_INET, and to
-.B sizeof(struct in6_addr)
+.I sizeof(struct in6_addr)
 if
 .I h_addrtype
 is AF_INET6.

man3/getline.3

@@ -44,9 +44,7 @@ newline delimiter was found.
 .\" Answer: *n is ignored and a new buffer is allocated
 If
 .IR "*lineptr"
-is
+is NULL, then the
-.BR "NULL" ,
-the
 .BR getline ()
 routine will allocate a buffer for containing the line, which must be freed
 by the user program.

man3/getopt.3

@@ -154,9 +154,9 @@ or
 .PP
 .I longopts
 is a pointer to the first element of an array of
-.B struct option
+.I struct option
 declared in
-.B <getopt.h>
+.I <getopt.h>
 as
 .nf
 .sp

man3/getrpcent.3

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ each return a pointer to an object with the
 following structure
 containing the broken-out
 fields of a line in the rpc program number data base,
-.BR /etc/rpc .
+.IR /etc/rpc .
 .RS
 .LP
 .nf
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ program number is found, or until end-of-file is encountered.
 .SH FILES
 .PD 0
 .TP 20
-.B /etc/rpc
+.I /etc/rpc
 .PD
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR rpc (5),

man3/gets.3

@@ -124,8 +124,7 @@ and
 .BR fgets ()
 return
 .I s
-on success, and
+on success, and NULL
-.B NULL
 on error or when end of file occurs while no characters have been read.
 .PP
 .BR ungetc ()

man3/glob.3

@@ -148,8 +148,7 @@ which means that only directories are matched.
 .PP
 If
 .I errfunc
-is not
+is not NULL,
-.BR NULL ,
 it will be called in case of an error with the arguments
 .IR epath ,
 a pointer to the path which failed, and
@@ -175,8 +174,7 @@ Upon successful return,
 contains the number of matched pathnames and
 .I pglob->gl_pathv
 a pointer to the list of matched pathnames.  The first pointer after
-the last pathname is
+the last pathname is NULL.
-.BR NULL .
 .PP
 It is possible to call
 .BR glob ()

man3/localeconv.3

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ localeconv \- get numeric formatting information
 The
 .BR localeconv ()
 function returns a pointer to a
-.B struct lconv
+.I struct lconv
 for the current locale. This structure is defined in the header-file
 .B locale.h
 and contains all values associated with the locale categories

man3/login.3

@@ -91,15 +91,17 @@ to your compiler command line.
 
 Note that the
 member
-.B ut_user
+.I ut_user
-of struct utmp is called
+of 
-.B ut_name
+.I struct utmp 
+is called
+.I ut_name
 in BSD.  Therefore,
-.B ut_name
+.I ut_name
 is defined as an alias for
-.B ut_user
+.I ut_user
 in
-.IR utmp.h .
+.IR <utmp.h> .
 .SH FILES
 .TP
 .I /var/run/utmp

man3/malloc.3

@@ -67,9 +67,7 @@ Otherwise, or if
 has already been called before, undefined behaviour occurs.
 If
 .I ptr
-is
+is NULL, no operation is performed.
-.BR NULL ,
-no operation is performed.
 .PP
 .BR realloc ()
 changes the size of the memory block pointed to by
@@ -81,18 +79,14 @@ The contents will be unchanged to the minimum of the old and new sizes;
 newly allocated memory will be uninitialized.
 If
 .I ptr
-is
+is NULL, the call is equivalent to
-.BR NULL ,
-the call is equivalent to
 .BR malloc(size) ;
 if size is equal to zero,
 the call is equivalent to
 .BI "free(" "ptr" ) .
 Unless
 .I ptr
-is
+is NULL, it must have been returned by an earlier call to
-.BR NULL ,
-it must have been returned by an earlier call to
 .BR malloc (),
 .BR calloc ()
 or
@@ -106,9 +100,7 @@ For
 and 
 .BR malloc (),
 the value returned is a pointer to the allocated memory, which is suitably
-aligned for any kind of variable, or
+aligned for any kind of variable, or NULL if the request fails.
-.B NULL
-if the request fails.
 .PP
 .BR free ()
 returns no value.
@@ -117,9 +109,8 @@ returns no value.
 returns a pointer to the newly allocated memory, which is suitably
 aligned for any kind of variable and may be different from
 .IR ptr ,
-or
+or NULL if the request fails. 
-.B NULL
+If
-if the request fails. If
 .I size
 was equal to 0, either NULL or a pointer suitable to be passed to
 .BR free ()

man3/mempcpy.3

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ function.  It copies
 bytes from the object beginning at
 .I src 
 into the object pointed to by 
-.I dest.  
+.IR dest .  
 But instead of returning the value of 
 .I dest
 it returns a pointer to the byte following the last written byte.

man3/popen.3

@@ -92,9 +92,7 @@ status of the command as returned by
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 The
 .BR popen ()
-function returns
+function returns NULL if the
-.B NULL
-if the
 .BR fork (2)
 or
 .BR pipe (2)

man3/posix_memalign.3

@@ -75,9 +75,7 @@ For all three routines, the memory is not zeroed.
 .BR memalign ()
 and
 .BR valloc ()
-return the pointer to the allocated memory, or
+return the pointer to the allocated memory, or NULL if the request fails.
-.B NULL
-if the request fails.
 
 .BR posix_memalign ()
 returns zero on success, or one of the error values listed in the

man3/printf.3

@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ For decimal conversion
 .BR G )
 the output is to be grouped with thousands' grouping characters
 if the locale information indicates any.  Note that many versions of 
-.B gcc
+.BR gcc (1)
 cannot parse this option and will issue a warning.  SUSv2 does not
 include %'F.
 .PP

man3/re_comp.3

@@ -42,8 +42,7 @@ which is overwritten by subsequent use of
 .BR re_comp ().
 If
 .I regex
-is
+is NULL,
-.BR NULL ,
 no operation is performed and the pattern buffer's contents are not
 altered.
 
@@ -54,9 +53,7 @@ matches the previously compiled
 .IR regex .
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 .BR re_comp ()
-returns
+returns NULL on successful compilation of
-.B NULL
-on successful compilation of
 .I regex
 otherwise it returns a pointer to an appropriate error message.
 

man3/rpc.3

@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ Stuff the machine's
 address into
 .IR *addr ,
 without consulting the library routines that deal with
-.BR /etc/hosts .
+.IR /etc/hosts .
 The port number is always set to
 .BR htons(\s-1PMAPPORT\s0) .
 .br

man3/setbuf.3

@@ -105,8 +105,7 @@ argument should point to a buffer at least
 bytes long; this buffer will be used instead of the current buffer.  If the
 argument
 .I buf
-is
+is NULL,
-.BR NULL ,
 only the mode is affected; a new buffer will be allocated on the next read
 or write operation.  The
 .BR setvbuf ()

man3/setlocale.3

@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ function is used to set or query the program's current locale.
 .PP
 If
 .I locale
-is not
+is not NULL,
-.BR NULL ,
 the program's current locale is modified according to the arguments.
 The argument
 .I category
@@ -132,9 +131,7 @@ For a list of all supported locales, try "locale \-a", cf.\&
 .PP
 If
 .I locale
-is
+is NULL, the current locale is only queried, not modified.
-.BR NULL ,
-the current locale is only queried, not modified.
 .PP
 On startup of the main program, the portable
 .B """C"""
@@ -162,9 +159,8 @@ returns an opaque string that corresponds to the locale set.
 This string may be allocated in static storage.
 The string returned is such that a subsequent call with that string
 and its associated category will restore that part of the process's
-locale. The return value is
+locale. 
-.B NULL
+The return value is NULL if the request cannot be honored.
-if the request cannot be honored.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 ANSI C, POSIX.1
 .SH NOTES

man3/strtod.3

@@ -111,8 +111,7 @@ These functions return the converted value, if any.
 
 If
 .I endptr
-is not
+is not NULL,
-.BR NULL ,
 a pointer to the character after the last character used in the conversion
 is stored in the location referenced by
 .IR endptr .

man3/system.3

@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@ a command that does
 .PP
 If the value of
 .I command
-is 
+is NULL,
-.BR NULL ,
 .BR system ()
 returns non-zero if the shell is available, and zero if not.
 .PP

man3/ttyname.3

@@ -51,9 +51,8 @@ of length
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 The function
 .BR ttyname ()
-returns a pointer to a pathname on success. On error,
+returns a pointer to a pathname on success. 
-.B NULL
+On error, NULL is returned, and
-is returned, and
 .I errno
 is set appropriately.
 The function

man4/console.4

@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ console \- console terminal and virtual consoles
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 A Linux system has up to 63 \fIvirtual consoles\fP
 (character devices with major number 4 and minor number 1 to 63),
-usually called \fB/dev/tty\fP\fIn\fP with 1 \(<= \fIn\fP \(<= 63.
+usually called \fI/dev/tty\fP\fIn\fP with 1 \(<= \fIn\fP \(<= 63.
 The current console is also addressed by
-\fB/dev/console\fP or \fB/dev/tty0\fP, the character device with
+\fI/dev/console\fP or \fI/dev/tty0\fP, the character device with
 major number 4 and minor number 0.
 The device files /dev/* are usually created using the script MAKEDEV,
 or using

man4/fd.4

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ lost when the media is changed.
 sets the media information of a drive (geometry of disk in drive). The
 media information will not be lost when the media is changed. This
 will disable autodetection. In order to re-enable autodetection, you
-have to issue an \fBFDCLRPRM\fP .
+have to issue an \fBFDCLRPRM\fP.
 .IP \fBFDGETDRVTYP\fP
 returns the type of a drive (name parameter).  For formats which work
 in several drive types, \fBFDGETDRVTYP\fP returns a name which is

man4/full.4

@@ -27,16 +27,16 @@
 .SH NAME
 full \- always full device
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-File \fB/dev/full\fP has major device number 1 
+File \fI/dev/full\fP has major device number 1 
 and minor device number 7.
 .LP 
-Writes to the \fB/dev/full\fP device will fail with an ENOSPC error.
+Writes to the \fI/dev/full\fP device will fail with an ENOSPC error.
 
-Reads from the \fB/dev/full\fP device will return \\0 characters.
+Reads from the \fI/dev/full\fP device will return \\0 characters.
 
-Seeks on \fB/dev/full\fP will always succeed.
+Seeks on \fI/dev/full\fP will always succeed.
 .SH CONFIGURING
-If your system does not have \fB/dev/full\fP created already, it 
+If your system does not have \fI/dev/full\fP created already, it 
 can be created with the following commands:
 .nf
 

man4/hd.4

@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ Both DOS-type partitioning and BSD-disklabel partitioning are supported.
 You can have at most 63 partitions on an IDE disk.
 .LP
 For example,
-.B /dev/hda
+.I /dev/hda
 refers to all of the first IDE drive in the system; and
-.B /dev/hdb3
+.I /dev/hdb3
 refers to the third DOS `primary' partition on the second one.
 .LP
 They are typically created by:

man4/initrd.4

@@ -39,20 +39,20 @@ initrd \- boot loader initialized RAM disk
 .\"   
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The special file 
-.B /dev/initrd 
+.I /dev/initrd 
 is a read-only block device.  
 Device 
-.B /dev/initrd
+.I /dev/initrd
 is a RAM disk that is initialized (e.g. loaded) by the boot loader before
 the kernel is started.
 The kernel then can use the block device
-.BR /dev/initrd "'s " 
+.IR /dev/initrd "'s " 
 contents for a two phased system boot-up.
 .PP
 In the first boot-up phase, the kernel starts up 
 and mounts an initial root file-system from the contents 
 of 
-.B /dev/initrd 
+.I /dev/initrd 
 (e.g. RAM disk initialized by the boot loader). 
 In the second phase, additional drivers or other modules 
 are loaded from the initial root device's contents.  
@@ -68,41 +68,42 @@ When booting up with
 .RS 0.2i
 .PP
 1. The boot loader loads the kernel program and 
-.BR /dev/initrd "'s contents into memory."
+.IR /dev/initrd "'s contents into memory."
 .PP
-2. On kernel startup, the kernel uncompresses and copies the contents of the device 
+2. On kernel startup, 
-.B /dev/initrd
+the kernel uncompresses and copies the contents of the device 
+.I /dev/initrd
 onto device 
-.B /dev/ram0 
+.I /dev/ram0 
 and then frees the memory used by 
-.BR /dev/initrd "."
+.IR /dev/initrd "."
 .PP
 3. The kernel then read-write mounts device
-.B /dev/ram0 
+.I /dev/ram0 
 as the initial root file system.
 .PP
 4. If the indicated normal root file system is also the initial root file-system
 (e.g. 
-.B /dev/ram0
+.I /dev/ram0
 ) then the kernel skips to the last step for the usual boot sequence.
 .PP
 5. If the executable file 
-.BR /linuxrc " is present in the initial root file-system, " /linuxrc
+.IR /linuxrc " is present in the initial root file-system, " /linuxrc
 is executed with UID 0.  
 (The file 
-.B /linuxrc
+.I /linuxrc
 must have executable permission.  
 The file 
-.B /linuxrc
+.I /linuxrc
 can be any valid executable, including a shell script.)  
 .PP
 6. If  
-.B /linuxrc
+.I /linuxrc
 is not executed or when 
-.B /linuxrc
+.I /linuxrc
 terminates, the normal root file system is mounted.  
 (If
-.BR /linuxrc 
+.IR /linuxrc 
 exits with any file-systems mounted on the initial root 
 file-system, then the behavior of the kernel is 
 .BR UNSPECIFIED "."
@@ -111,21 +112,21 @@ See the
 section for the current kernel behavior.)
 .PP
 7. If the normal root file has directory 
-.BR /initrd ", device"
+.IR /initrd ", device"
-.B /dev/ram0
+.I /dev/ram0
 is moved from 
-.BR / " to " /initrd "."
+.IR / " to " /initrd "."
 Otherwise if directory  
-.BR /initrd " does not exist device " /dev/ram0 " is unmounted." 
+.IR /initrd " does not exist device " /dev/ram0 " is unmounted." 
 (When moved from 
-.BR / " to " /initrd ", " /dev/ram0  
+.IR / " to " /initrd ", " /dev/ram0  
 is not unmounted and therefore processes can remain running from 
-.BR /dev/ram0 "."  
+.IR /dev/ram0 "."  
 If directory 
-.BR /initrd 
+.IR /initrd 
 does not exist on the normal root file-system 
 and any processes remain running from  
-.BR /dev/ram0 " when " /linuxrc 
+.IR /dev/ram0 " when " /linuxrc 
 exits, the behavior of the kernel is 
 .BR UNSPECIFIED "."  
 See the 
@@ -133,7 +134,8 @@ See the
 section for the current kernel behavior.)
 .PP
 8. The usual boot sequence (e.g. invocation of 
-.BR /sbin/init ") is performed on the normal root file system."
+.IR /sbin/init )
+is performed on the normal root file system.
 .\"   
 .\"   
 .\"   
@@ -143,27 +145,29 @@ The following boot loader options when used with
 .TP
 .BI initrd= "filename"
 Specifies the file to load as the contents of 
-.BR /dev/initrd "."
+.IR /dev/initrd "."
 .RB "For " LOADLIN 
 this is a command line option.
 .RB "For " LILO " you have to use this command in the 
-.BR LILO " configuration file " /etc/lilo.config "."
+.BR LILO 
+configuration file 
+.IR /etc/lilo.config .
 The filename specified with this
 option will typically be a gzipped file-system image.
 .TP
-.B noinitrd
+.I noinitrd
 This boot time option disables the two phase boot-up operation.
 The kernel performs the usual boot sequence as if 
-.B /dev/initrd 
+.I /dev/initrd 
 was not initialized. 
 With this option, any contents of
-.B /dev/initrd 
+.I /dev/initrd 
 loaded into memory by the boot loader contents are preserved.
 This option permits the contents of 
-.B /dev/initrd
+.I /dev/initrd
 to be any data and need not be limited to a file system image.  
 However, device  
-.B /dev/initrd 
+.I /dev/initrd 
 is read-only and can be read only one time after system startup.
 .TP
 .BI root= "device-name"
@@ -182,7 +186,7 @@ device having a suitable root file-system.
 By default, 
 the kernel's settings
 (e.g. set in the kernel file with 
-.B rdev
+.BR rdev (8)
 or compiled into the kernel file),
 or the boot loader option setting
 is used for the normal root file systems.
@@ -195,38 +199,38 @@ For more information on setting the root file system also see the
 .BR LILO " and " LOADLIN " documentation."
 .PP
 It is also possible for the 
-.BR /linuxrc
+.IR /linuxrc
 executable to change the normal root device.
 For 
-.BR /linuxrc
+.IR /linuxrc
 to change the normal root device, 
-.BR /proc " must be mounted."
+.IR /proc " must be mounted."
 After mounting 
-.BR /proc ", " /linuxrc 
+.IR /proc ", " /linuxrc 
 changes the normal root device by writing into the proc files
-.BR /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev ", "
+.IR /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev ", "
-.BR /proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-name ", and " 
+.IR /proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-name ", and " 
-.BR /proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-addrs "."
+.IR /proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-addrs "."
 For a physical root device, the root device is changed by having
-.BR /linuxrc
+.IR /linuxrc
 write the new root file system device number into
-.BR /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev "."
+.IR /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev "."
 For a NFS root file system, the root device is changed by having
-.BR /linuxrc
+.IR /linuxrc
 write the NFS setting into files
-.BR /proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-name " and "
+.IR /proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-name " and "
-.BR /proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-addrs 
+.IR /proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-addrs 
 and then writing 0xff (e.g. the pseudo-NFS-device number) into file
-.BR /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev "."
+.IR /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev "."
 For example, the following shell command line would change
 the normal root device to 
-.BR /dev/hdb1 :
+.IR /dev/hdb1 :
 .nf
         echo 0x365 >/proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
 .fi
 For a NFS example, the following shell command lines would change the 
 normal root device to the NFS directory 
-.BR /var/nfsroot 
+.IR /var/nfsroot 
 on a local networked NFS server with IP number 193.8.232.7 for a system with 
 IP number 193.8.232.7 and named 'idefix':
 .nf
@@ -238,7 +242,7 @@ IP number 193.8.232.7 and named 'idefix':
 
 .BR Note :
 The use of
-.BR /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
+.IR /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev
 to change the root file system is obsolete.
 See the kernel source file
 .I Documentation/initrd.txt
@@ -261,11 +265,11 @@ A possible system installation scenario is as follows:
 .PP
 1. The loader program boots from floppy or other media with a minimal kernel
 (e.g. support for 
-.BR /dev/ram ", " /dev/initrd ", and the ext2 file-system) and loads " 
+.IR /dev/ram ", " /dev/initrd ", and the ext2 file-system) and loads " 
-.BR /dev/initrd " with a gzipped version of the initial file-system.
+.IR /dev/initrd " with a gzipped version of the initial file-system.
 .PP
 2. The executable 
-.BR /linuxrc 
+.IR /linuxrc 
 determines what is needed to (1) mount the normal root file-system
 (i.e. device type, device drivers, file system) and (2) the
 distribution media (e.g. CD-ROM, network, tape, ...). This can be
@@ -273,19 +277,19 @@ done by asking the user, by auto-probing, or by using a hybrid
 approach.
 .PP 
 3. The executable 
-.BR /linuxrc 
+.IR /linuxrc 
 loads the necessary modules from the initial root file-system.
 .PP
 4. The executable 
-.BR /linuxrc 
+.IR /linuxrc 
 creates and populates the root file system.  (At this stage the normal
 root file system does not have to be a
 completed system yet.)
 .PP
 5. The executable 
-.BR /linuxrc " sets " /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev,
+.IR /linuxrc " sets " /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev,
 unmount 
-.BR /proc ", "
+.IR /proc ", "
 the normal root file system and any other file
 systems it has mounted, and then terminates.
 .PP
@@ -295,12 +299,12 @@ systems it has mounted, and then terminates.
 the boot loader can be installed.
 .PP
 8. The boot loader is configured to load into
-.BR /dev/initrd
+.IR /dev/initrd
 a file system with the set of modules that was used to bring up the system. 
 (e.g. Device
-.BR /dev/ram0 
+.IR /dev/ram0 
 can be modified, then unmounted, and finally, the image is written from
-.BR /dev/ram0 
+.IR /dev/ram0 
 to a file.)
 .PP
 9. The system is now bootable and additional installation tasks can be
@@ -308,7 +312,7 @@ performed.
 .RE
 .PP
 The key role of 
-.BR /dev/initrd 
+.IR /dev/initrd 
 in the above is to re-use the configuration data during normal system operation 
 without requiring initial kernel selection, a large generic kernel or,
 recompiling the kernel.
@@ -321,15 +325,15 @@ information as small as possible.
 In this case, create a common file 
 with all needed modules. 
 Then, only the 
-.B /linuxrc
+.I /linuxrc
 file or a file executed by
-.B /linuxrc
+.I /linuxrc
 would be different.
 .PP
 A third scenario is more convenient recovery disks. 
 Because information like the location of the root file-system 
 partition is not needed at boot time, the system loaded from 
-.B /dev/initrd 
+.I /dev/initrd 
 can use a dialog and/or auto-detection followed by a 
 possible sanity check.
 .PP
@@ -339,27 +343,27 @@ for easy installation from the CD-ROM.
 The distribution can use 
 .BR LOADLIN 
 to directly load 
-.BR /dev/initrd
+.IR /dev/initrd
 from CD-ROM without the need of any floppies.
 The distribution could also use a 
 .BR LILO 
 boot floppy and then bootstrap a bigger ram disk via
-.BR /dev/initrd " from the CD-ROM."
+.IR /dev/initrd " from the CD-ROM."
 .\"   
 .\"   
 .\"   
 .SH CONFIGURATION
 The 
-.B /dev/initrd 
+.I /dev/initrd 
 is a read-only block device assigned 
 major number 1 and minor number 250.  
 Typically 
-.B /dev/initrd
+.I /dev/initrd
 is owned by 
-.B root.disk 
+.I root.disk 
 with mode 0400 (read access by root only).
 If the Linux system does not have
-.B /dev/initrd
+.I /dev/initrd
 already created, it can be created with the following commands:
 .nf
 \fB
@@ -371,9 +375,9 @@ Also, support for both "RAM disk" and "Initial RAM disk"
 (e.g. 
 .BR CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y " and " CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
 ) support must be compiled directly into the Linux kernel to use 
-.BR /dev/initrd "."
+.IR /dev/initrd "."
 When using 
-.BR /dev/initrd ", "
+.IR /dev/initrd ", "
 the RAM disk driver cannot be loaded as a module.
 .\"   
 .\"   
@@ -402,24 +406,25 @@ the LOADLIN documentation, the SYSLINUX documentation.
 .\"   
 .SH NOTES
 1. With the current kernel, any file systems that remain mounted when
-.BR /dev/ram0 " is moved from " / " to " /initrd 
+.IR /dev/ram0 " is moved from " / " to " /initrd 
 continue to be accessible.  However, the
-.BR /proc/mounts 
+.IR /proc/mounts 
 entries are not updated. 
 .PP
 2. With the current kernel, if directory 
-.BR /initrd " does not exist, then " /dev/ram0 
+.IR /initrd " does not exist, then " 
+.I /dev/ram0 
 will NOT be fully unmounted if 
-.BR /dev/ram0 
+.IR /dev/ram0 
 is used by any process or has any file-system mounted on it.
 If  
-.BR /dev/ram0 " is NOT fully unmounted, " 
+.IR /dev/ram0 " is NOT fully unmounted, " 
 then  
-.BR /dev/ram0
+.IR /dev/ram0
 will remain in memory.
 .PP
 3. Users of 
-.BR /dev/initrd 
+.IR /dev/initrd 
 should not depend on the behavior give in the above notes.  
 The behavior may change in future versions of the Linux kernel.
 .\"   

man4/pts.4

@@ -7,15 +7,15 @@
 .SH NAME
 ptmx and pts \- pseudo-terminal master and slave
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-The file \fB/dev/ptmx\fP is a character file with major number 5 and
+The file \fI/dev/ptmx\fP is a character file with major number 5 and
 minor number 2, usually of mode 0666 and owner.group of root.root.
 It is used to create a pseudo-terminal master and slave pair.
 .PP
-When a process opens \fB/dev/ptmx\fP, it gets a file
+When a process opens \fI/dev/ptmx\fP, it gets a file
 descriptor for a pseudo-terminal master (PTM),
 and a pseudo-terminal slave (PTS) device is created in the
 .I /dev/pts
-directory. Each file descriptor obtained by opening \fB/dev/ptmx\fP
+directory. Each file descriptor obtained by opening \fI/dev/ptmx\fP
 is an independent PTM with its own associated PTS, whose path can
 be found by passing the descriptor to
 .BR ptsname (3).

man4/random.4

@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@
 .SH NAME
 random, urandom \- kernel random number source devices
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-The character special files \fB/dev/random\fP and 
+The character special files \fI/dev/random\fP and 
-\fB/dev/urandom\fP (present since Linux 1.3.30)
+\fI/dev/urandom\fP (present since Linux 1.3.30)
 provide an interface to the kernel's random number generator.  
-File \fB/dev/random\fP has major device number 1 
+File \fI/dev/random\fP has major device number 1 
-and minor device number 8.  File \fB/dev/urandom\fP 
+and minor device number 8.  File \fI/dev/urandom\fP 
 has major device number 1 and minor device number 9. 
 .LP
 The random number generator gathers environmental noise 
@@ -27,25 +27,25 @@ The generator also keeps an estimate of the
 number of bits of noise in the entropy pool.
 From this entropy pool random numbers are created.
 .LP 
-When read, the \fB/dev/random\fP device will only return random bytes 
+When read, the \fI/dev/random\fP device will only return random bytes 
 within the estimated number of bits of noise in the entropy 
-pool.  \fB/dev/random\fP should be suitable for uses that need very 
+pool.  \fI/dev/random\fP should be suitable for uses that need very 
 high quality randomness such as one-time pad or key generation.  
-When the entropy pool is empty, reads from \fB/dev/random\fP will block 
+When the entropy pool is empty, reads from \fI/dev/random\fP will block 
 until additional environmental noise is gathered.
 .LP 
-A read from the \fB/dev/urandom\fP device will not block
+A read from the \fI/dev/urandom\fP device will not block
 waiting for more entropy.
 As a result, if there is not sufficient entropy in the
 entropy pool, the returned values are theoretically vulnerable to a
 cryptographic attack on the algorithms used by the driver.  Knowledge of
 how to do this is not available in the current non-classified
 literature, but it is theoretically possible that such an attack may
-exist.  If this is a concern in your application, use \fB/dev/random\fP
+exist.  If this is a concern in your application, use \fI/dev/random\fP
 instead.
 .SH CONFIGURING
 If your system does not have
-\fB/dev/random\fP and \fB/dev/urandom\fP created already, they 
+\fI/dev/random\fP and \fI/dev/urandom\fP created already, they 
 can be created with the following commands:
 
 .nf
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ run during the Linux system shutdown:
 The files in the directory
 .I /proc/sys/kernel/random
 (present since 2.3.16) provide an additional interface to the
-.B /dev/random
+.I /dev/random
 device.
 .LP
 The read-only file

man4/sd.4

@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ partitions 1-4 are the DOS "primary" partitions
 partitions 5-8 are the DOS "extended" (or "logical") partitions
 
 For example,
-.B /dev/sda
+.I /dev/sda
 will have major 8, minor 0, and will refer to all of the first SCSI drive
 in the system; and
-.B /dev/sdb3
+.I /dev/sdb3
 will have major 8, minor 19, and will refer to the third DOS "primary"
 partition on the second SCSI drive in the system.
 

man4/sk98lin.4

@@ -422,11 +422,11 @@ and
 are designed to operate in configurations where a network path between the ports on one adapter exists. Moreover, they are not designed to work where adapters are connected back-to-back.
 .SH FILES
 .TP
-.B /proc/net/sk98lin/eth[x]
+.I /proc/net/sk98lin/eth[x]
 .br
 The statistics file of a particular interface of an adapter card. It contains generic information about the adapter card plus a detailed summary of all transmit and receive counters.
 .TP
-.B /usr/src/linux/Documentation/network/sk98lin.txt
+.I /usr/src/linux/Documentation/network/sk98lin.txt
 .br
 This is the
 .IR README

man4/st.4

@@ -142,12 +142,12 @@ compile-time constant (originally four). The driver contains an
 that can format a tape with either one or two partitions.
 .PP
 Device
-.B /dev/tape
+.I /dev/tape
 is usually created as a hard or soft link to the default tape device
 on the system.
 .PP
 Starting from kernel 2.6.2, the driver exports in the sysfs directory
-.BR /sys/class/scsi_tape
+.IR /sys/class/scsi_tape
 the attached devices and some parameters assigned to the devices.
 .SH "DATA TRANSFER"
 The driver supports operation in both fixed-block mode and
@@ -202,11 +202,11 @@ driver are passed to the
 .B SCSI
 driver.
 The definitions below are from
-.BR /usr/include/linux/mtio.h :
+.IR /usr/include/linux/mtio.h :
 .SS "\s-1MTIOCTOP\s+1 \(em Perform a tape operation"
 .PP
 This request takes an argument of type
-.BR "(struct mtop *)" .
+.IR "(struct mtop *)" .
 Not all drives support all operations.
 The driver returns an EIO error if the drive rejects an operation.
 .PP
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ the masked sense data byte.
 .SS "\s-1MTIOCGET\s+1 \(em Get status"
 .PP
 This request takes an argument of type
-.BR "(struct mtget *)" .
+.IR "(struct mtget *)" .
 .PP
 .nf
 /* structure for \s-1MTIOCGET\s+1 \- mag tape get status command */
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ This value is set to \-1 when the block number is unknown (e.g., after
 .SS "\s-1MTIOCPOS\s+1 \(em Get tape position"
 .PP
 This request takes an argument of type
-.B "(struct mtpos *)"
+.I "(struct mtpos *)"
 and reports the drive's notion of the current tape block number,
 which is not the same as
 .B mt_blkno

man4/tty.4

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .SH NAME
 tty \- controlling terminal
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-The file \fB/dev/tty\fP is a character file with major number 5 and
+The file \fI/dev/tty\fP is a character file with major number 5 and
 minor number 0, usually of mode 0666 and owner.group root.tty.  It is a
 synonym for the controlling terminal of a process, if any.
 .LP
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ then SIGHUP and SIGCONT signals are sent to the foreground process group
 and all processes in the current session lose their controlling tty.
 .sp
 This \fBioctl\fP() call only works on file descriptors connected
-to \fB/dev/tty\fP. It is used by daemon processes when they are invoked
+to \fI/dev/tty\fP. It is used by daemon processes when they are invoked
 by a user at a terminal.
-The process attempts to open \fB/dev/tty\fP. If the open succeeds, it
+The process attempts to open \fI/dev/tty\fP. If the open succeeds, it
 detaches itself from the terminal by using \fBTIOCNOTTY\fP, while if the
 open fails, it is obviously not attached to a terminal and does not need
 to detach itself.

man4/tty_ioctl.4

@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ set the current serial port settings.
 .LP
 The following four ioctls are just like TCGETS, TCSETS, TCSETSW, TCSETSF,
 except that they take a
-.B "struct termio *"
+.I "struct termio *"
 instead of a
-.BR "struct termios *" .
+.IR "struct termios *" .
 .TP
 .BI "TCGETA	struct termio *" argp
 .TP

man4/vcs.4

@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@
 .SH NAME
 vcs, vcsa \- virtual console memory
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-\fB/dev/vcs0\fP is a character device with major number 7 and minor number
+\fI/dev/vcs0\fP is a character device with major number 7 and minor number
 0, usually of mode 0644 and owner root.tty.  It refers to the memory
 of the currently
 displayed virtual console terminal.
 .LP
-\fB/dev/vcs[1\-63]\fP are character devices for virtual console
+\fI/dev/vcs[1\-63]\fP are character devices for virtual console
 terminals, they have major number 7 and minor number 1 to 63, usually
-mode 0644 and owner root.tty.  \fB/dev/vcsa[0\-63]\fP are the same, but
+mode 0644 and owner root.tty.  \fI/dev/vcsa[0\-63]\fP are the same, but
 including attributes, and prefixed with four bytes giving the screen
 dimensions and cursor position: \fIlines\fP, \fIcolumns\fP, \fIx\fP, \fIy\fP.
 (\fIx\fP = \fIy\fP = 0 at the top left corner of the screen.)

man5/acct.5

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ acct("/somewhere/accountingfile");
 will start the process accounting. Each time a process terminates
 a record for this process is appended to the accounting file.
 The accounting structure
-.B "struct acct"
+.I "struct acct"
 is also described in the file
 .IR /usr/include/linux/acct.h .
 .SH "SEE ALSO"

man5/group.5

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .SH NAME
 group \- user group file
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-\fB/etc/group\fP is an ASCII file which defines the groups to which users
+\fI/etc/group\fP is an ASCII file which defines the groups to which users
 belong.  There is one entry per line, and each line has the format:
 .sp
 .RS

man5/ipc.5

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ In the following, the word
 means an instantiation of one among such mechanisms.
 .SS Resource Access Permissions
 For each resource, the system uses a common structure of type
-.BR "struct ipc_perm"
+.IR "struct ipc_perm"
 to store information needed in determining permissions to perform an
 ipc operation.
 The
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ type variable.
 A message queue is uniquely identified by a positive integer
 .RI "(its " msqid )
 and has an associated data structure of type
-.BR "struct msqid_ds" ,
+.IR "struct msqid_ds" ,
 defined in
 .IR <sys/msg.h> ,
 containing the following members:
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ structure.
 A semaphore set is uniquely identified by a positive integer
 .RI "(its " semid )
 and has an associated data structure of type
-.BR "struct semid_ds" ,
+.IR "struct semid_ds" ,
 defined in
 .IR <sys/sem.h> ,
 containing the following members:
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ to
 .BR sem_nsems\-1 .
 .PP
 A semaphore is a data structure of type
-.B "struct sem"
+.I "struct sem"
 containing the following members:
 .sp
 .B
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ to become zero.
 A shared memory segment is uniquely identified by a positive integer
 .RI "(its " shmid )
 and has an associated data structure of type
-.BR "struct shmid_ds" ,
+.IR "struct shmid_ds" ,
 defined in
 .IR <sys/shm.h> ,
 containing the following members:

man5/issue.5

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .SH NAME
 issue \- pre-login message and identification file
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-The file \fB/etc/issue\fP is a text file which contains a message or
+The file \fI/etc/issue\fP is a text file which contains a message or
 system identification to be printed before the login prompt.  It may
 contain various \fB@\fP\fIchar\fP and \fB\e\fP\fIchar\fP sequences, if
 supported by

man5/locale.5

@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ and is terminated with the keyword
 .PP
 
 For more details see the sources in 
-.B /usr/lib/nls/src
+.I /usr/lib/nls/src
 notably the examples
 .BR POSIX ,
 .B Example

man5/motd.5

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .SH NAME
 motd \- message of the day
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-The contents of \fB/etc/motd\fP are displayed by 
+The contents of \fI/etc/motd\fP are displayed by 
 .BR login (1)
 after a successful login but just before it executes the login shell.
 

man5/nologin.5

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .SH NAME
 nologin \- prevent non-root users from logging into the system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-If the file \fB/etc/nologin\fP exists, 
+If the file \fI/etc/nologin\fP exists, 
 .BR login (1)
 will allow access only to root. Other users will
 be shown the contents of this file and their logins will be refused.

man5/nscd.conf.5

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 /etc/nscd.conf \- name service cache daemon configuration file
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The file
-.B /etc/nscd.conf
+.I /etc/nscd.conf
 is read from
 .BR nscd (8)
 at startup. Each line specifies either an attribute and a value, or an

man5/nsswitch.conf.5

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ contain a cleaner solution of this problem.  It is designed after a method
 used by Sun Microsystems in the C library of Solaris 2. We follow their
 name and call this scheme "Name Service Switch" (NSS). The sources for
 the "databases" and their lookup order are specified in the
-.B /etc/nsswitch.conf
+.I /etc/nsswitch.conf
 file.
 .LP
 The following databases are available in the NSS:
@@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ Shadow user passwords, used by
 .BR getspnam (3).
 .LP
 An example
-.B /etc/nsswitch.conf
+.I /etc/nsswitch.conf
 (namely, the default used when
-.B /etc/nsswitch.conf
+.I /etc/nsswitch.conf
 is missing):
 .sp 1n
 .PD 0
@@ -202,20 +202,20 @@ default action is `continue'.
 .SS Interaction with +/\- syntax (compat mode)
 Linux libc5 without NYS does not have the name service switch but does
 allow the user some policy control. In
-.B /etc/passwd
+.I /etc/passwd
 you could have entries of the form +user or +@netgroup
 (include the specified user from the NIS passwd map),
 \-user or \-@netgroup (exclude the specified user),
 and + (include every user, except the excluded ones, from the NIS
 passwd map). Since most people only put a + at the end of
-.B /etc/passwd
+.I /etc/passwd
 to include everything from NIS, the switch provides a faster
 alternative for this case (`passwd: files nis') which doesn't
 require the single + entry in
-.BR /etc/passwd ,
+.IR /etc/passwd ,
-.BR /etc/group ,
+.IR /etc/group ,
 and
-.BR /etc/shadow .
+.IR /etc/shadow .
 If this is not sufficient, the NSS `compat' service provides full
 +/\- semantics. By default, the source is `nis', but this may be
 overridden by specifying `nisplus' as source for the pseudo-databases
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ that resides in
 .IR /lib .
 .TP 25
 .PD 0
-.B /etc/nsswitch.conf
+.I /etc/nsswitch.conf
 configuration file
 .TP
 .BI /lib/libnss_compat.so. X
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ implements `hesiod' source for glibc2
 .BI /lib/libnss_nis.so. X
 implements `nis' source for glibc2
 .TP
-.B /lib/libnss_nisplus.so.2
+.I /lib/libnss_nisplus.so.2
 implements `nisplus' source for glibc 2.1
 .SH NOTES
 Within each process that uses

man5/passwd.5

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ the user's $HOME directory.
 .TP
 .I shell
 the program to run at login (if empty, use
-.BR /bin/sh ).
+.IR /bin/sh ).
 If set to a non-existing executable, the user will be unable to login
 through
 .BR login (1).

man5/shells.5

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .SH NAME
 shells \- pathnames of valid login shells
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-.B /etc/shells
+.I /etc/shells
 is a text file which contains the full pathnames of valid login shells.
 This file is consulted by
 .BR chsh (1)
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Be aware that there are programs which consult this file to
 find out if a user is a normal user. E.g.: ftp daemons traditionally
 disallow access to users with shells not included in this file.
 .SH EXAMPLES
-.B /etc/shells
+.I /etc/shells
 may contain the following paths:
 .sp
 .RS

man5/termcap.5

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ only for capability with old programs; new ones should use the
 .BR terminfo (5)
 database and associated libraries.
 .LP
-.B /etc/termcap
+.I /etc/termcap
 is an ASCII file (the database master) that lists the capabilities of
 many different types of terminals.  Programs can read termcap to find
 the particular escape codes needed to control the visual attributes of

man5/tzfile.5

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ begin with the magic characters "TZif" to identify then as
 time zone information files,
 followed by sixteen bytes reserved for future use,
 followed by six four-byte values of type
-.BR long ,
+.IR long ,
 written in a ``standard'' byte order
 (the high-order byte of the value is written first).
 These values are,

man7/LDP.7

@@ -73,13 +73,13 @@ for more information.
 Most distributions include the HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs in the installation
 .PD 0
 .TP
-\fB/usr/doc/\fP                   (old place for documentation)
+\fI/usr/doc/\fP                   (old place for documentation)
 .TP
-\fB/usr/share/doc/\fP             (new place for documentation)
+\fI/usr/share/doc/\fP             (new place for documentation)
 .TP
-\fB/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/\fP       (HOWTO files)
+\fI/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/\fP       (HOWTO files)
 .TP
-\fB/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/mini/\fP  (mini-HOWTO files)
+\fI/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/mini/\fP  (mini-HOWTO files)
 .PD
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR info (1),

man7/arp.7

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Three ioctls are available on all
 .B PF_INET
 sockets.
 They take a pointer to a
-.B struct arpreq
+.I struct arpreq
 as their parameter.
 
 .nf
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ is obsolete and should not be used.
 ARP supports a sysctl interface to configure parameters on a global
 or per-interface basis.
 The sysctls can be accessed by reading or writing the 
-.B /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/*/*
+.I /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/*/*
 files or with the 
 .BR sysctl (2)
 interface.  Each interface in the system has its own directory in
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ functionality together.
 
 .SH VERSIONS
 The
-.B struct arpreq
+.I struct arpreq
 changed in Linux 2.0 to include the
 .I arp_dev
 member and the ioctl numbers changed at the same time.

man7/boot.7

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ without parameters displays the possible arguments.
 .SS "Sequencing Directories"
 To make specific scripts start/stop at specific run-levels and in
 specific order, there are \fIsequencing directories\fR. These
-are normally in \fB/etc/rc[0\-6S].d\fR. In each of these directories
+are normally in \fI/etc/rc[0\-6S].d\fR. In each of these directories
 there are links (usually symbolic) to the scripts in the \fIinit.d\fR
 directory.
 

man7/ddp.7

@@ -75,10 +75,10 @@ struct sockaddr_atalk {
 .PP
 .I sat_family
 is always set to 
-.B AF_APPLETALK. 
+.BR AF_APPLETALK . 
 .I sat_port
 contains the port. The port numbers below 129 are known as 
-.B reserved ports.
+.I reserved ports.
 Only processes with the effective user ID 0 or the 
 .B CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE 
 capability may 
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ is the host address.
 The 
 .I net
 member of 
-.B struct at_addr
+.I struct at_addr
 contains the host network in network byte order.  The value of 
 .B AT_ANYNET 
 is a 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ wildcard and also implies \(lqthis network.\(rq
 The 
 .I node
 member of 
-.B struct at_addr
+.I struct at_addr
 contains the host node number.  The value of 
 .B AT_ANYNODE 
 is a 
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ No protocol-specific socket options are supported.
 .SH SYSCTLS
 IP supports a sysctl interface to configure some global AppleTalk parameters. 
 The sysctls can be accessed by reading or writing the 
-.B /proc/sys/net/atalk/* 
+.I /proc/sys/net/atalk/* 
 files or with the 
 .BR sysctl (2)
 interface.

man7/icmp.7

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ are also limited by the destination route of the incoming packets.
 .SH SYSCTLS
 ICMP supports a sysctl interface to configure some global IP parameters.
 The sysctls can be accessed by reading or writing the 
-.B /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* 
+.I /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* 
 files or with the 
 .BR sysctl (2)
 interface. Most of these sysctls are rate limitations for specific ICMP types.

man7/ip.7

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ are implemented by higher level protocols like
 and
 .BR tcp (7).
 On raw sockets
-.B sin_port
+.I sin_port
 is set to the IP protocol.
 
 .PP
@@ -152,9 +152,9 @@ is the IP host address.
 The 
 .I addr
 member of 
-.B struct in_addr
+.I struct in_addr
 contains the host interface address in network order. 
-.B in_addr 
+.I in_addr 
 should be only accessed using the
 .BR inet_aton (3),
 .BR inet_addr (3),
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ puts the current IP options used for sending into the supplied buffer.
 Pass an
 .I IP_PKTINFO
 ancillary message that contains a 
-.B pktinfo 
+.I pktinfo 
 structure that supplies some information about the incoming packet.
 This only works for datagram oriented sockets.
 The argument is a flag that tells the socket whether the IP_PKTINFO message
@@ -258,11 +258,11 @@ struct in_pktinfo {
 .RE
 .IP
 .\" FIXME elaborate on that.
-.B ipi_ifindex
+.I ipi_ifindex
 is the unique index of the interface the packet was received on.
-.B ipi_spec_dst
+.I ipi_spec_dst
 is the local address of the packet and
-.B ipi_addr
+.I ipi_addr
 is the destination address in the packet header.
 If
 .I IP_PKTINFO 
@@ -270,11 +270,11 @@ is passed to
 .BR sendmsg (2)
 and
 .\" This field is grossly misnamed
-.B ipi_spec_dst
+.I ipi_spec_dst
 is not zero, then it is used as the local source address for the routing
 table lookup and for setting up IP source route options.
 When
-.B ipi_ifindex
+.I ipi_ifindex
 is not zero the primary local address of the interface specified by the
 index overwrites
 .I ipi_spec_dst
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ be received by calling
 with the 
 .B MSG_ERRQUEUE 
 flag set. The 
-.B sock_extended_err 
+.I sock_extended_err 
 structure describing the error will be passed in a ancillary message with 
 the type 
 .I IP_RECVERR 
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ contains the error packet.
 The 
 .I IP_RECVERR 
 control message contains a 
-.B sock_extended_err
+.I sock_extended_err
 structure:
 .IP
 .RS
@@ -416,9 +416,9 @@ struct sockaddr *SO_EE_OFFENDER(struct sock_extended_err *);
 .fi
 .RE
 .IP
-.B ee_errno 
+.I ee_errno 
 contains the errno number of the queued error. 
-.B ee_origin
+.I ee_origin
 is the origin code of where the error originated. 
 The other fields are protocol specific. The macro
 .B SO_EE_OFFENDER 
@@ -427,15 +427,15 @@ where the error originated from given a pointer to the ancillary message.
 If this address is not known, the
 .I sa_family 
 member of the 
-.B sockaddr 
+.I sockaddr 
 contains 
 .B AF_UNSPEC
 and the other fields of the 
-.B sockaddr 
+.I sockaddr 
 are undefined. 
 .IP
 IP uses the 
-.B sock_extended_err
+.I sock_extended_err
 structure as follows:
 .I ee_origin 
 is set to 
@@ -594,8 +594,8 @@ packets should be looped back to the local sockets.
 .\"
 .TP
 .B IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP
-Join a multicast group. Argument is a 
+Join a multicast group. Argument is an
-.B struct ip_mreqn
+.I ip_mreqn
 structure. 
 .PP
 .RS
@@ -625,9 +625,9 @@ is the interface index of the interface that should join/leave the
 group, or 0 to indicate any interface. 
 .IP
 For compatibility, the old 
-.B ip_mreq 
+.I ip_mreq 
 structure is still supported. It differs from 
-.B ip_mreqn 
+.I ip_mreqn 
 only by not including
 the 
 .I imr_ifindex 
@@ -637,18 +637,18 @@ field. Only valid as a
 .TP
 .B IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP
 Leave a multicast group. Argument is an
-.B ip_mreqn 
+.I ip_mreqn 
 or 
-.B ip_mreq 
+.I ip_mreq 
 structure similar to
 .IR IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP . 
 .\"
 .TP
 .B IP_MULTICAST_IF
 Set the local device for a multicast socket. Argument is an
-.B ip_mreqn 
+.I ip_mreqn 
 or 
-.B ip_mreq 
+.I ip_mreq 
 structure similar to 
 .IR IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP .
 .IP
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ is returned.
 The IP protocol
 supports the sysctl interface to configure some global options. The sysctls
 can be accessed by reading or writing the 
-.B /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* 
+.I /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* 
 files or using the
 .\" FIXME As at 2.6.12, 14 Jun 2005, the following are undocumented:
 .\"	ip_queue_maxlen
@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ are new options in Linux 2.2.
 They are also all Linux specific and should not be used in
 programs intended to be portable.
 .PP
-.B struct ip_mreqn 
+.I struct ip_mreqn 
 is new in Linux 2.2.  Linux 2.0 only supported 
 .BR ip_mreq .
 .PP
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ socket. This is deprecated and should be replaced by
 .BI "socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, " protocol )
 instead. The main difference is the
 new 
-.B sockaddr_ll 
+.I sockaddr_ll 
 address structure for generic link layer information instead of the old 
 .BR sockaddr_pkt .
 .SH BUGS

man7/ipv6.7

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ struct in6_addr {
 .sp
 .B sin6_family 
 is always set to 
-.B AF_INET6; 
+.BR AF_INET6 ; 
 .B sin6_port 
 is the protocol port (see
 .B sin_port
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ socket into a socket of a different address family. Only
 is currently supported for that. It is only allowed for IPv6 sockets
 that are connected and bound to a v4-mapped-on-v6 address. The argument
 is a pointer to a integer containing 
-.B AF_INET. 
+.BR AF_INET . 
 This is useful to pass v4-mapped sockets as file descriptors to 
 programs that don't know how to deal with the IPv6 API.
 .TP 
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ Argument is a pointer to boolean.
 .TP
 .B IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, IPV6_DROP_MEMBERSHIP
 Control membership in multicast groups. Argument is a pointer to a 
-.B struct ipv6_mreq
+.I struct ipv6_mreq
 structure.
 .TP
 .B IPV6_MTU
@@ -239,13 +239,13 @@ when the passed address length contains it. Some programs that pass a
 longer address buffer and then check the outgoing address length may break.
 .SH "PORTING NOTES"
 The
-.B sockaddr_in6
+.I sockaddr_in6
 structure is bigger than the generic
-.B sockaddr. 
+.BR sockaddr . 
 Programs that assume that all address types can be stored safely in a 
-.B struct sockaddr
+.I struct sockaddr
 need to be changed to use 
-.B struct sockaddr_storage
+.I struct sockaddr_storage
 for that instead.
 .SH BUGS
 The IPv6 extended API as in RFC\ 2292 is currently only partly implemented;

man7/locale.7

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ the value of
 is used.
 .PP
 Values about local numeric formatting is made available in a
-.B struct lconv
+.I struct lconv
 returned by the
 .BR localeconv ()
 function, which has the following declaration:

man7/packet.7

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ are passed to a packet socket. To only get packets from a specific interface
 use
 .BR bind (2)
 specifying an address in a
-.B struct sockaddr_ll
+.I struct sockaddr_ll
 to bind the packet socket to an interface. Only the 
 .B sll_protocol 
 and the
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ can be used for the same purpose.
 .B SIOCGSTAMP
 can be used to receive the time stamp of the last received packet. Argument
 is a 
-.B struct timeval.
+.I struct timeval.
 
 In addition all standard ioctls defined in
 .BR netdevice (7)
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ This is still supported but strongly deprecated.
 The main difference between the two methods is that
 .B SOCK_PACKET
 uses the old
-.B struct sockaddr_pkt
+.I struct sockaddr_pkt
 to specify an interface, which doesn't provide physical layer independence.
 
 .RS
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ multiplexed on the DSAP/SSAP protocol fields; instead they are supplied to the
 user as protocol 
 .B ETH_P_802_2
 with the LLC header prepended. It is thus not possible to bind to
-.B ETH_P_802_3;
+.BR ETH_P_802_3 ;
 bind to 
 .B ETH_P_802_2 
 instead and do the protocol multiplex yourself.

man7/raw.7

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ A raw socket can be bound to a specific local address using the
 .BR bind (2)
 call. If it isn't bound all packets with the specified IP protocol are received.
 In addition a RAW socket can be bound to a specific network device using
-.B SO_BINDTODEVICE;
+.BR SO_BINDTODEVICE ;
 see 
 .BR socket (7).
 
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ RAW sockets are generally rather unportable and should be avoided in programs
 intended to be portable.
 
 Sending on raw sockets should take the IP protocol from 
-.B sin_port;
+.BR sin_port ;
 this ability was lost in Linux 2.2. Work around is to use
 .BR IP_HDRINCL .
 

man7/rtnetlink.7

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ struct ifaddrmsg
 is the address family type (currently 
 .B AF_INET
 or
-.B AF_INET6), 
+.BR AF_INET6 ), 
 .B ifa_prefixlen
 is the length of the address mask of the address if defined for the 
 family (like for IPv4), 
@@ -402,16 +402,16 @@ If the
 field is
 .B NDA_CACHEINFO
 then a
-.B struct nda_cacheinfo
+.I struct nda_cacheinfo
 header follows
 .TP
 .BR RTM_NEWRULE ", " RTM_DELRULE ", " RTM_GETRULE
 Add, delete or retrieve a routing rule. Carries a 
-.B struct rtmsg
+.I struct rtmsg
 .TP
 .BR RTM_NEWQDISC ", " RTM_DELQDISC ", " RTM_GETQDISC
 Add, remove or get a queueing discipline.  The message contains a
-.B struct tcmsg
+.I struct tcmsg
 and may be followed by a series of
 attributes.
 
@@ -447,13 +447,13 @@ For more information see the appropriate include files.
 .TP
 .BR RTM_NEWTCLASS ", " RTM_DELTCLASS ", " RTM_GETTCLASS
 Add, remove or get a traffic class.  These messages contain a
-.B struct tcmsg
+.I struct tcmsg
 as described above.
 .TP
 .BR RTM_NEWTFILTER ", " RTM_DELTFILTER ", " RTM_GETTFILTER
 Add, remove or receive information about a traffic filter.  These
 messages contain a
-.B struct tcmsg
+.I struct tcmsg
 as described above.
 .SH VERSIONS
 .B rtnetlink 

man7/socket.7

@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ of the call to
 or
 .BR socketpair (2).
 Argument is a
-.B ucred 
+.I ucred 
 structure. 
 Only valid as a 
 .BR getsockopt ().
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ sysctl.
 Sets or gets the 
 .B SO_LINGER 
 option. The argument is a 
-.B linger 
+.I linger 
 structure.
 .PP
 .RS
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ signal later.
 .\" .SH ANCILLARY MESSAGES
 .SH SYSCTLS
 The core socket networking sysctls can be accessed using the 
-.B /proc/sys/net/core/* 
+.I /proc/sys/net/core/* 
 files or with the 
 .BR sysctl (2) 
 interface. 
@@ -504,12 +504,12 @@ These operations can be accessed using
 .TP
 .B SIOCGSTAMP
 Return a 
-.B struct timeval 
+.I struct timeval 
 with the receive timestamp of the last packet passed to the user. This is useful
 for accurate round trip time measurements. See 
 .BR setitimer (2) 
 for a description of 
-.BR "struct timeval" .
+.IR "struct timeval" .
 .\"
 .TP
 .BR SIOCSPGRP

man7/tcp.7

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ communication; broadcasting and multicasting are not
 supported.
 .SH SYSCTLS
 These variables can be accessed by the 
-.B /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* 
+.I /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* 
 files or with the 
 .BR sysctl (2)
 interface.  In addition, most IP sysctls also apply to TCP; see
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ exceeds this number of pages, TCP moderates its memory
 consumption.  This memory pressure state is exited
 once the number of pages allocated falls below
 the 
-.B low 
+.I low 
 mark.
 
 .I high

man7/unix.7

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ The passed file descriptors behave as though they have been created with
 .B SCM_CREDENTIALS
 Send or receive Unix credentials.  This can be used for authentication.
 The credentials are passed as a 
-.B struct ucred
+.I struct ucred
 ancillary message.
 
 .RS
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ its user ID, effective user ID, or saved set-user-ID (unless it has
 and its group ID, effective group ID, or saved set-group-ID (unless it has
 .BR CAP_SETGID ).
 To receive a
-.B struct ucred
+.I struct ucred
 message the
 .B SO_PASSCRED 
 option must be enabled on the socket.
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ User memory address was not valid.
 .TP
 .B EPERM
 The sender passed invalid credentials in the
-.BR "struct ucred" .
+.IR "struct ucred" .
 .PP
 Other errors can be generated by the generic socket layer or 
 by the filesystem while generating a filesystem socket object. See

man7/x25.7

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ occurs, the X.25 connection will be reset.
 The 
 .B AF_X25 
 socket address family uses the
-.B struct sockaddr_x25
+.I struct sockaddr_x25
 for representing network addresses as defined in ITU-T
 recommendation X.121.
 .PP

man8/ld.so.8

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ The program
 .B ld.so
 handles a.out binaries, a format used long ago;
 .B ld-linux.so*
-handles ELF (\fB/lib/ld-linux.so.1\fP for libc5, \fB/lib/ld-linux.so.2\fP
+handles ELF (\fI/lib/ld-linux.so.1\fP for libc5, \fI/lib/ld-linux.so.2\fP
 for glibc2), which everybody has been using for years now.
 Otherwise both have the same behaviour, and use the same
 support files and programs
@@ -46,16 +46,16 @@ in which case it is ignored.
 of the binary if present.
 .IP o
 From the cache file
-.BR /etc/ld.so.cache
+.IR /etc/ld.so.cache
 which contains a compiled list of candidate libraries previously found
 in the augmented library path. If, however, the binary was linked with
 .B \-z nodeflib
 linker option, libraries in the default library paths are skipped.
 .IP o
 In the default path
-.BR /lib ,
+.IR /lib ,
 and then
-.BR /usr/lib .
+.IR /usr/lib .
 If the binary was linked with
 .B \-z nodeflib
 linker option, this step is skipped.
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ which is stored in the
 .B .interp
 section of the program is executed) or directly by running:
 .P
-.B /lib/ld-linux.so.*
+.I /lib/ld-linux.so.*
 [OPTIONS] [PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS]]
 .SH COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
 .TP
@@ -217,17 +217,17 @@ when none is present.
 .SH FILES
 .PD 0
 .TP
-.B /lib/ld.so
+.I /lib/ld.so
 a.out dynamic linker/loader
 .TP
-.BR /lib/ld\-linux.so. { 1 , 2 }
+.IR /lib/ld\-linux.so. { 1 , 2 }
 ELF dynamic linker/loader
 .TP
-.B /etc/ld.so.cache
+.I /etc/ld.so.cache
 File containing a compiled list of directories in which to search for
 libraries and an ordered list of candidate libraries.
 .TP
-.B /etc/ld.so.preload
+.I /etc/ld.so.preload
 File containing a whitespace separated list of ELF shared libraries to
 be loaded before the program.
 libraries and an ordered list of candidate libraries.

man8/ldconfig.8

@@ -81,11 +81,11 @@ Some existing libs do not contain enough information to allow the deduction of
 their type. Therefore, the
 .IR /etc/ld.so.conf
 file format allows the specification of an expected type.  This is
-.B only
+.I only
 used for those ELF libs which we can not work out. The format
 is "dirname=TYPE", where TYPE can be libc4, libc5, or libc6.
 (This syntax also works on the command line.)  Spaces are
-.B not
+.I not
 allowed.  Also see the
 .B \-p
 option.
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ instead of
 .TP
 .B \-r root
 Change to and use
-.B root
+.I root
 as the root directory.
 .TP
 .B \-l
@@ -151,15 +151,15 @@ the current cache.
 .SH FILES
 .PD 0
 .TP 20
-.B /lib/ld.so
+.I /lib/ld.so
 run-time linker/loader
 .TP 20
-.B /etc/ld.so.conf
+.I /etc/ld.so.conf
 File containing a list of colon, space, tab, newline, or comma-separated
 directories in which to search for libraries.
 .TP 20
-.B /etc/ld.so.cache
+.I /etc/ld.so.cache
 File containing an ordered list of libraries found in the directories
 specified in
-.BR /etc/ld.so.conf .
+.IR /etc/ld.so.conf .
 .PD