doc: Remove paragraph about typesetting conventions

They no longer match reality with the web site style sheets, and it is
difficult to keep the up to date in a CSS world.
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<sect1 id="notation">
<title>Conventions</title>
<para>
This book uses the following typographical conventions to mark
certain portions of text: new terms, foreign phrases, and other
important passages are emphasized in <emphasis>italics</>.
Everything that represents input or output of the computer, in
particular commands, program code, and screen output, is shown in a
monospaced font (<literal>example</literal>). Within such
passages, italics (<replaceable>example</replaceable>) indicate
placeholders; you must insert an actual value instead of the placeholder.
On occasion, parts of program code are emphasized in bold face
(<emphasis role="bold"><literal>example</></>), if they have been
added or changed since the preceding example.
</para>
<para>
The following conventions are used in the synopsis of a command:
brackets (<literal>[</literal> and <literal>]</literal>) indicate