From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC suggestion] Generate manpage directly with Asciidoctor
Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 23:10:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJYBOrm2cQkkVteb@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJXT7AaqCeCV4WcZ@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>
On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 11:57:32PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> It's not quite that simple. It requires changes to
> asciidoctor-extensions.rb and we also need to consider
> NO_MAN_BOLD_LITERAL and GNU_ROFF. The latter especially is likely to be
> inconvenient, since according to the Makefile, it's impossible to write
> man output that works across troff versions.
>
> We will also want to preserve the ability to use xmlto because we
> currently have doc-diff which helps us find divergences in the behavior
> of AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor, many of which affect all formats, and that
> will be completely useless if we use two different rendering toolchains.
Speaking of doc-diff: with that patch applied, try "./doc-diff
--asciidoctor HEAD^ HEAD", which shows quite a few of the complications
(another one seems to be that all of the linkgit macros are broken).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-08 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-07 6:06 [RFC suggestion] Generate manpage directly with Asciidoctor Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-07 12:02 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-07 22:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-07 22:57 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-08 1:42 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-07 12:27 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-05-07 12:47 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-07 23:03 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-08 4:27 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-07 20:25 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-07 22:19 ` Jeff King
2021-05-08 4:22 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-09 8:20 ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-09 18:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-10 18:43 ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-10 22:24 ` Jeff King
2021-05-11 4:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11 6:13 ` Jeff King
2021-05-11 8:03 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11 12:44 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-11 19:00 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11 19:09 ` Jeff King
2021-05-11 20:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11 23:14 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-12 1:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11 18:45 ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-11 19:07 ` Jeff King
2021-05-11 19:11 ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-11 20:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11 9:04 ` Jean-Noël Avila
2021-05-11 18:54 ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-07 23:35 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-07 23:57 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-08 3:10 ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-05-08 3:23 ` Jeff King
2021-05-09 0:22 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-09 8:29 ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-07 22:48 ` Felipe Contreras
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