Interesting! I never thought about the issue being the reader treating it as just strings and making that an ill-fit for the problem domain.

My bugbear with man is that the only way to find a particular flag is via string search, so if I want to find out what "-c" does I'm going to bounce off of every hyphenated word starting with "c" in the file. Turns out `mdoc` makes it extremely easy to find those flags (they're all `.It Fl <whatever>` macros), but by the time it gets all the way to `less` that detail has been squeezed right out of the file.

Emacs manpage display is like 90% of the way there but lacks a function to "find flag in file;" I should look into how hard that would be to hack in.