mdoc(7) police:

Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text.
Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also
has an undesired (in this case) effect of disabling hyphenation within the
entire enclosed block.

bin/date/date.1

@@ -160,13 +160,11 @@ The date can be adjusted as many times as required using these flags.
 Flags are processed in the order given.
 .Pp
 When setting values
-.Pq rather than adjusting them ,
+(rather than adjusting them),
 seconds are in the range 0-59, minutes are in the range 0-59, hours are
 in the range 1-12, month days are in the range 1-31, week days are in the
-range 0-6
-.Pq Sun-Sat ,
-months are in the range 1-12
-.Pq Jan-Dec
+range 0-6 (Sun-Sat),
+months are in the range 1-12 (Jan-Dec)
 and years are in the range 80-38 or 1980-2038.
 .Pp
 If
@@ -185,11 +183,11 @@ must be used to specify which part of the date is to be adjusted.
 The week day or month may be specified using a name rather than a
 number.
 If a name is used with the plus
-.Pq or minus
+(or minus)
 sign, the date will be put forwards
-.Pq or backwards
+(or backwards)
 to the next
-.Pq previous
+(previous)
 date that matches the given week day or month.
 This will not adjust the date,
 if the given week day or month is the same as the current one.
@@ -207,13 +205,11 @@ the clock goes back at 02:00 to 01:00, using
 will be necessary to reach October 29, 2:30.
 .Pp
 When the date is adjusted to a specific value that doesn't actually exist
-.Po
-for example March 26, 1:30 BST 2000 in the Europe/London timezone
-.Pc ,
+(for example March 26, 1:30 BST 2000 in the Europe/London timezone),
 the date will be silently adjusted forwards in units of one hour until it
 reaches a valid time.
 When the date is adjusted to a specific value that occurs twice
-.Pq for example October 29, 1:30 2000 ,
+(for example October 29, 1:30 2000),
 the resulting timezone will be set so that the date matches the earlier of
 the two times.
 .Pp
@@ -242,11 +238,11 @@ The canonical representation for setting the date and time is:
 .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact -offset indent
 .It Ar cc
 Century
-.Pq either 19 or 20
+(either 19 or 20)
 prepended to the abbreviated year.
 .It Ar yy
 Year in abbreviated form
-.Pq e.g. 89 for 1989, 06 for 2006 .
+(e.g. 89 for 1989, 06 for 2006).
 .It Ar mm
 Numeric month, a number from 1 to 12.
 .It Ar dd
@@ -257,7 +253,7 @@ Hour, a number from 0 to 23.
 Minutes, a number from 0 to 59.
 .It Ar ss
 Seconds, a number from 0 to 61
-.Pq 59 plus a maximum of two leap seconds .
+(59 plus a maximum of two leap seconds).
 .El
 .Pp
 Everything but the minutes is optional.

bin/sh/sh.1

@@ -191,11 +191,11 @@ Flag variables for export when assignments are made to them.
 .It Fl b Li notify
 Enable asynchronous notification of background job
 completion.
-.Pq UNIMPLEMENTED
+(UNIMPLEMENTED)
 .It Fl C Li noclobber
 Do not overwrite existing files with
 .Dq Li > .
-.Pq UNIMPLEMENTED
+(UNIMPLEMENTED)
 .It Fl E Li emacs
 Enable the builtin
 .Xr emacs 1
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ sh -T -c "trap 'exit 1' 2 ; some-blocking-program"
 Write a message to standard error when attempting
 to expand a variable that is not set, and if the
 shell is not interactive, exit immediately.
-.Pq UNIMPLEMENTED
+(UNIMPLEMENTED)
 .It Fl V Li vi
 Enable the builtin
 .Xr vi 1
@@ -364,8 +364,7 @@ meaning of all characters except dollarsign
 backquote
 .Pq Li ` ,
 and backslash
-.Po Li \e\"
-.Pc .
+.Pq Li \e .
 The backslash inside double quotes is historically weird.
 It remains literal unless it precedes the following characters,
 which it serves to quote:

bin/sleep/sleep.1

@@ -62,11 +62,9 @@ signal is not handled specially by this implementation.
 The
 .Nm
 command will accept and honor a non-integer number of specified seconds
-.Po
-with a
+(with a
 .Ql .\&
-character as a decimal point
-.Pc .
+character as a decimal point).
 .Bf Sy
 This is a non-portable extension, and its use will nearly guarantee that
 a shell script will not execute properly on another system.

bin/test/test.1

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ is nonzero.
 True if
 .Ar file
 is a named pipe
-.Po Tn FIFO Pc .
+.Pq Tn FIFO .
 .It Fl r Ar file
 True if
 .Ar file

contrib/amd/amd/amd.8

@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ process as needed.  This tends to improve
 performance, at the cost of reserving the memory used by the
 .Nm amd
 process
-.Pq making it unavailable for other processes .
+(making it unavailable for other processes).
 If this behavior is not desired, use the
 .Fl S
 option.

contrib/amd/hlfsd/hlfsd.8

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ will re-verify the validity of the user's home directory, and
 reset the cache time-counter.  The default value for
 .Ar cache-interval
 is 300 seconds 
-.Pq 5 minutes .
+(5 minutes).
 .It Fl f 
 Force fast startup.  This option tells
 .Nm
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ to
 .Ar group .
 Programs such as
 .Ic comsat ,
-.Pq which access the mailboxes of other users
+(which access the mailboxes of other users)
 must be setgid
 .Va HLFS_GID
 to work properly.  The default group is
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ sent to
 will force it to reload the maps immediately.   The default value for
 .Ar reload-interval
 is 900 seconds 
-.Pq 15 minutes .
+(15 minutes).
 .It Fl l Ar logfile
 Specify a log file to which
 .Nm