Re: [PATCH 0/7] Fix more AsciiDoc/tor differences

["Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 06:48, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 04:12:46PM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote:
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> > This series roughly halves the line count of `./doc-diff --from-asciidoc
> > --to-asciidoctor --cut-header-footer HEAD HEAD`. Together with my recent
> > (independent) mini-series [1], I claim that Asciidoctor 1.5.5 now
> > processes the manpages better than AsciiDoc 8.6.10 does.
>
> I looked these over, both source and rendered output (both with asciidoc
> and with asciidoctor 2.0.10), and they all look good to me.

Thanks.

> I think the delimited literal blocks are _slightly_ less pretty than the
> indented ones, but this is the solution we've been using for cross-tool
> compatibility (and I think it's intentional in asciidoctor to deprecate
> the indented blocks, because there are just too many corner cases). The
> delimited ones are also easier to write correctly.

Agreed on all of this.

> > Patch 7/7 has an element of black magic to it. I wouldn't be too
> > surprised if I've managed to appease my particular versions of these
> > tools while not fixing -- or maybe even breaking? -- some other versions
> > [that people actually use]. That's where I think a quick test would be
> > the most valuable.
>
> I can confirm that asciidoctor 2.0.10 has the same bogus output there
> before your patches, and that 7/7 fixes it.

Cool. Thanks for testing it.

Martin