This is an Enhancement which is a generalization of, and fix for, Bug JDK-6344777.

The general issue is that inline tags are not supported in the descriptions of block tags. It would be particularly nice to be able to support {@link} tags in various tags, but it may also be there is a general solution here.

This grep command shows the tags which contain a syntactic component named description or label:

$ grep -E '^\*.*(escription|label)_' closed/src/jdk.javadoc/share/specs/doc-comment-spec.md
* `@exception` _class-name_ _description_
* `@param` _parameter-name_ _description_
* `@param` `<`_type-parameter-name_`>` _description_
* `@provides` _service-type_ _description_
* `@return` _description_
* `@see` `<a href="`_url_`">`_label_`</a>`
* `@see` _package_`.`_class_`#`_member_ _label_
* `@serial` _field-description_
* `@serialData` _data-description_
* `@serialField` _field-name_ _field-type_ _field-description_
* `@throws` _class-name_ _description_
* `@uses` _service-type_ _description_
* `{@index` _word_ _description_ `}`
* `{@index "`_phrase_`"` _description_ `}`
* `{@link` _package_`.`_class_`#`_member_ _label_ `}`
* `{@linkplain` _package_`.`_class_`#`_member_ _label_ `}`

It's probably not necessary (or even desirable) to look at the inline tags (i.e. {@index} and {@link}) but for the others, it would be nice to be able to handle inline tags.

Here's an example of how it is -not- done, in HtmlSerialFieldWriter:
            Content serialFieldContent = new RawHtml(ch.getText(description));

"It would be nice" if that "new RawHtml(ch.getText(...))" could be replaced by a call to some library method to translate "description" into Content, interpreting any inline tags that may be found.