There's no reason to assume that "function arguments" are typeset with
an underline. So re-word that sentence to avoid directly stating
typographical conventions by using an example instead.
.Xr cdecl 1 ,
and is described by the following context-free grammar. This grammar is for
illustrative purposes only: it is ambiguous and doesn't capture all the nuances
-of the C language. In this grammar,
-.Fa underlined words
-are nonterminals, \[*e] represents the empty string, and both
+of the C language. In this grammar, nonterminals are represented
+.Fa thusly ,
+\[*e] represents the empty string, and both
.Li |
and successive \[->] under the same nonterminal indicate alternation. All
other symbols are terminals. The nonterminals