Replace <firstterm> with emphasis

At one time, it seems that I was starting to use the <firstterm> feature of docbook, but I forgot about it long ago, and there is nothing consistent. In the absence of an actual glossary, just use emphasis for terminology and don't tag it in any special way. This could be fixed later if we wanted to.

Replace <firstterm> with emphasis
At one time, it seems that I was starting to use the <firstterm> feature of docbook, but I forgot about it long ago, and there is nothing consistent. In the absence of an actual glossary, just use emphasis for terminology and don't tag it in any special way. This could be fixed later if we wanted to.
Jay Berkenbilt
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TODO
manual/index.rst
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ See https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/roles.html
 Make sure the information from <book> is in there
 <xref> -- find #ref. in converted rst
-<firstterm> -> just use literal
-
 Additional cleanup:
 * Indices and tables section
@@ -2116,8 +2116,8 @@ purposes or for brute-force recovery of files with unknown passwords.
 QDF Mode
 ========
-In QDF mode, qpdf creates PDF files in what we call @1@firstterm@1@QDF
-form@2@firstterm@2@. A PDF file in QDF form, sometimes called a QDF
+In QDF mode, qpdf creates PDF files in what we call *QDF
+form*. A PDF file in QDF form, sometimes called a QDF
 file, is a completely valid PDF file that has ``%QDF-1.0`` as its third
 line (after the pdf header and binary characters) and has certain other
 characteristics. The purpose of QDF form is to make it possible to edit
@@ -3026,7 +3026,7 @@ add it to the ``QPDF`` object with ``QPDF::makeIndirectObject``. The
 only way to add two mutually referential objects to a ``QPDF`` object
 prior to version 3.0 would be to add the new objects first and then make
 them refer to each other after adding them. Now it is possible to create
-a @1@firstterm@1@reserved object@2@firstterm@2@ using
+a *reserved object* using
 ``QPDFObjectHandle::newReserved``. This is an indirect object that stays
 "unresolved" even if it is queried for its type. So now, if you want to
 create a set of mutually referential objects, you can create
@@ -3047,7 +3047,7 @@ Copying Objects From Other PDF Files
 Version 3.0 of qpdf introduced the ability to copy objects into a
 ``QPDF`` object from a different ``QPDF`` object, which we refer to as
-@1@firstterm@1@foreign objects@2@firstterm@2@. This allows arbitrary
+*foreign objects*. This allows arbitrary
 merging of PDF files. The "from" ``QPDF`` object must remain valid after
 the copy as discussed in the note below. The
 :command:`qpdf` command-line tool provides limited
@@ -3298,10 +3298,10 @@ to the page level (and not inherited from parents in the ``/Pages``
 tree). We also have to know which objects refer to which other objects,
 being concerned with page boundaries and a few other cases. We refer to
 this part of preparing the PDF file as
-@1@firstterm@1@optimization@2@firstterm@2@, discussed in
+*optimization*, discussed in
 `Optimization <#ref.optimization>`__. Note the, in this context, the
-term @1@firstterm@1@optimization@2@firstterm@2@ is a qpdf term, and the
-term @1@firstterm@1@linearization@2@firstterm@2@ is a term from the PDF
+term *optimization* is a qpdf term, and the
+term *linearization* is a term from the PDF
 specification. Do not be confused by the fact that many applications
 refer to linearization as optimization or web optimization.
@@ -3327,7 +3327,7 @@ attributes appear directly at the page level and are not inherited from
 parents in the pages tree.
 We refer to the process of enforcing these constraints as
-@1@firstterm@1@optimization@2@firstterm@2@. As mentioned above, note
+*optimization*. As mentioned above, note
 that some applications refer to linearization as optimization. Although
 this optimization was initially motivated by the need to create
 linearized files, we are using these terms separately.