From: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: "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: Sun, 9 May 2021 10:29:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0heSrbJQjzbwm3CiNh7UduKSYKogsHBh6RQszDuk2cGu=r=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6095ceb984401_cfc7208b9@natae.notmuch>
On Sat, 8 May 2021 at 01:40, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
This looks similar to Todd's wip [1]. Here's something
whitespace-damaged on top that improves some things, but I'm sure
there's more to do. I think in order to work on this, it would need to
be a separate switch so that we can use asciidoctor both the old-school
and the new-school way for a while.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190317194431.GY31362@pobox.com/
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 0cfa88a92b..9f73d2d033 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -192,7 +192,9 @@ ASCIIDOC_HTML = xhtml5
ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK = docbook5
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -acompat-mode -atabsize=8
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -I. -rasciidoctor-extensions
-ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -alitdd='&\#x2d;&\#x2d;'
+ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -alitdd='\--'
+ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -aplus='+'
+ASCIIDOC_COMMON += -a mansource="Git $(GIT_VERSION)" -a manmanual="Git Manual"
DBLATEX_COMMON =
XMLTO_EXTRA += --skip-validation
XMLTO_EXTRA += -x manpage.xsl
diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb
b/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb
index d906a00803..fb74443241 100644
--- a/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb
+++ b/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb
@@ -10,11 +10,16 @@ module Git
def process(parent, target, attrs)
prefix = parent.document.attr('git-relative-html-prefix')
+ s = "#{target}(#{attrs[1]})"
if parent.document.doctype == 'book'
"<ulink url=\"#{prefix}#{target}.html\">" \
"#{target}(#{attrs[1]})</ulink>"
+ elsif parent.document.basebackend? 'manpage'
+ # FIXME: boldness should respect NO_MAN_BOLD_LITERAL?
+ # -- should be doable using an attribute, similar
+ # to "prefix" above
+ create_inline(parent, :quoted, s, type: :strong).convert
elsif parent.document.basebackend? 'html'
%(<a href="#{prefix}#{target}.html">#{target}(#{attrs[1]})</a>)
elsif parent.document.basebackend? 'docbook'
"<citerefentry>\n" \
"<refentrytitle>#{target}</refentrytitle>" \
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-09 8:29 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
2021-05-08 3:23 ` Jeff King
2021-05-09 0:22 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-09 8:29 ` Martin Ågren [this message]
2021-05-07 22:48 ` Felipe Contreras
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