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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC suggestion] Generate manpage directly with Asciidoctor
Date: Fri, 07 May 2021 18:35:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6095ceb984401_cfc7208b9@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJWiQH2nf0B14Zy7@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>

brian m. carlson wrote:
> On 2021-05-07 at 06:06:31, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > So completely migrating to Asciidoctor can eliminate xmlto requirement
> > for generating manpage.
> > 
> > What do you think about above?
> 
> I didn't do this because it makes things very complicated in the
> Makefile and my goal was to minimize the needed changes and divergence.
> I'm not opposed to someone else doing it, but I expect it will be a
> bunch of work.

I don't think it would be that complicated.

This patch seems to do the trick here:

diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index c2baad0bd8..8fa4896d22 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -alitdd='&\#x2d;&\#x2d;'
 DBLATEX_COMMON =
 XMLTO_EXTRA += --skip-validation
 XMLTO_EXTRA += -x manpage.xsl
+TXT_TO_MAN = $(ASCIIDOC_COMMON) -b manpage
 endif
 
 SHELL_PATH ?= $(SHELL)
@@ -360,9 +361,16 @@ $(OBSOLETE_HTML): %.html : %.txto asciidoc.conf asciidoctor-extensions.rb GIT-AS
 manpage-base-url.xsl: manpage-base-url.xsl.in
 	$(QUIET_GEN)sed "s|@@MAN_BASE_URL@@|$(MAN_BASE_URL)|" $< > $@
 
+ifdef TXT_TO_MAN
+%.1 %.5 %.7 : %.txt asciidoc.conf asciidoctor-extensions.rb GIT-ASCIIDOCFLAGS
+	$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
+	$(TXT_TO_MAN) -o $@+ $< && \
+	mv $@+ $@
+else
 %.1 %.5 %.7 : %.xml manpage-base-url.xsl $(wildcard manpage*.xsl)
 	$(QUIET_XMLTO)$(RM) $@ && \
 	$(XMLTO) -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
+endif
 
 %.xml : %.txt asciidoc.conf asciidoctor-extensions.rb GIT-ASCIIDOCFLAGS
 	$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \

I'm sure this can be improved with some knowledge about intermediary
rules.

> It also doesn't help if you're generating more than just the manual
> pages, since generating the PDFs will definitely require xmlto and
> either dblatex or fop.  I personally prefer fop over dblatex, but folks
> have different opinions.

Huh? user-manual.pdf seems to require DBLATEX, not XMLTO.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-07 23:35 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 [this message]
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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