This replaces deprecatd styles with the modern LaTeX
equivalent (it - textit, etc.) and removes some verbatim
content that was not needed. More special characters
are cleaned up as well.
This replaces the custom blist with the LaTex built-in description list
and adds enumitem to style the lists more easily. A default style for
the description list is defined instead of specifying the font in every
list item. Some special characters in list items are also replaced
with textcomp options such as textasciigrave, etc.
This is essentially the minimum required to start modernizing the LaTeX
code for the guidebook. Because this breaks the way that underscores
and straight single quotation marks were implemented, this also replaces
those with textunderscore and textsinglequote.
danielclow