DLang Spec rewrite (?)

[Borden]

On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 01:22:17 UTC, Borden wrote:
> 2) Adopting Latex's rule that a double line break means a new 
> paragraph. This will effectively make the $(P) macros rampant 
> in the DLang spec documentation unnecessary.

Oops. I realised that this has already been done. OK, so I guess 
the question is why does the DLang spec need $(P) macros? How 
could it be rewritten without them and let dmd worry about them?