"\*(T<" and "\*(T>" are not ignored

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At https://www.carta.tech/man-pages/man1/docbook2x-texi.1.html, the output for the "OPTIONS" section is:

The available options are essentially the union of the options for db2x_xsltproc(1) and db2x_texixml(1).

Some commonly-used options are listed below:

\*(T<--encoding=\*(T>encoding

    Sets the character encoding of the output.

\*(T<--string-param \*(T>parameter\*(T<=\*(T>value

    Sets a stylesheet parameter (options that affect how the output looks). See “Stylesheet parameters” below for the parameters that can be set.

\*(T<--sgml\*(T>

    Accept an SGML source document as input instead of XML.

The source code of the man page under Fedora reads:

.PP
Some commonly-used options are listed below:
.TP 
\*(T<\fB\-\-encoding=\fR\*(T>\fIencoding\fR
Sets the character encoding of the output.

--encoding is displayed bold under Fedora/Linux. This seems to come from \fB and \fR, and \*(T< and \*(T> are simply undefined macros that are effectively ignored, i. e. do not affect the output on their own.