From: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
To: "Jean-Noël Avila" <avila.jn@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC suggestion] Generate manpage directly with Asciidoctor
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 20:54:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0heSpNhfmsVO5rME1xZzPPbkCuDm0ng64xWNx4xy+8ZrVz+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0fd3182c-3805-ee1b-5a35-e0c9a67892ab@gmail.com>
On Tue, 11 May 2021 at 11:04, Jean-Noël Avila <avila.jn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/05/2021 at 10:20, Martin Ågren wrote :
> >
> > I tend to think asciidoctor even renders our manpages *better* than
> > asciidoc does. Not by a huge margin, but a few things here and there.
> > Some time around the Python 2 EOL, I was about to propose flipping the
> > default, but then I went to look up the asciidoc EOL schedule, and like
> > you, I noticed that it was a lot more alive and kicking than I thought
> > it was. So it's not so much "we should flip to avoid a bitrotting
> > dependency" as it is "asciidoctor is arguably nicer" or "it's the way
> > forward".
>
> If we start to change the documentation format to "the way forward", we
> may soon end up with a format which is no longer handled by the legacy
> asciidoc.py
We used to be in a situation where Asciidoctor looked worse and the
rendered versions were quite different. We've fixed up quite a few
discrepancies by making some change that "happens" to be a noop with one
engine but an improvement with the other. (That it just "happens" has
sometimes been my feeling anyway.) Sometimes, we've been able to improve
both by spotting a difference, so that's good.
I would also expect that with more eyes on asciidoctor-built docs
(because default) and fewer on the other, the non-default will start to
degrade.
> As stated on https://github.com/asciidoc-py/asciidoc-py :
>
> "AsciiDoc.py is a legacy processor for this syntax, handling an older
> rendition of AsciiDoc. As such, this will not properly handle the
> current AsciiDoc specification. It is suggested that unless you
> specifically require the AsciiDoc.py toolchain, you should find a
> processor that handles the modern AsciiDoc syntax."
Thanks for that quote. It's very enlightening.
> FWIW, we are already using Asciidoctor for publishing the manpages to
> https://git-scm.com
Thank you for all your work on that site!
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-11 18:54 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 [this message]
2021-05-07 23:35 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-07 23:57 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-08 3:10 ` Jeff King
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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