Bug#280148: pod2man should create bold references

[Niko Tyni]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:24:53AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> I'm a little reluctant to change this because pod2man has been using
> italics since before I started to maintain it.  man-pages(7) is a good
> reference, though, since it's a concrete style guide with some general
> weight behind it, although the BSD style guide is also fairly concrete and
> doesn't add markup.

If there are non-trivial differences between platform-specific style
recommendations, how about making the output 'dialect' configurable?
Or do you think that's too much bloat?

I can see problems with functional differences (like enabling '--utf8')
between dialects, but for purely cosmetic things like bold vs. italic
this could work.
-- 
Niko