From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"brian m . carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] INSTALL: note about make man with Asciidoctor backend
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 05:23:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwns29ydw.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0heSrNzxSpq=trPvOHAYx_yT1W=WuN1XstzTRjHdZko-i+DA@mail.gmail.com> ("Martin Ågren"'s message of "Thu, 13 May 2021 15:41:11 +0200")
Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> writes:
>> > Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > > + You can also do "make man" using Asciidoctor's manpage backend in
>> > > + place of xmlto by passing USE_ASCIIDOCTOR_MANPAGE=YesPlease. Version
>> > > + 2.0 or later is highly recommended, as these version properly handle
>> > > + apostrophes.
>> ...
>
> Even early 2.0.x had some issues [1]. It's always debatable whether they're
> significant or not, i.e., is a significant speed-up worth it if the
> result is just-as-informative-but-a-bit-ugly-here-and-there? We should
> provide some rough background here to help people and distros decide.
What does "properly handle apostrophes" refer to exactly? I got an
impression that it was the pretty-quoting that breaks cut-and-paste,
which is a usability issue for manpages.
> Maybe something like
>
> "This can be quite a bit faster and requires fewer dependencies, but
> please note that this is early work: there are some typographical
> issues we know of, and there might be others."
>
> but hopefully phrased better than that.
That looks like a good starting point.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-13 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-12 6:41 [PATCH] INSTALL: note about make man with Asciidoctor backend Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-12 7:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-12 8:13 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-13 13:41 ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-13 20:23 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-06-02 20:07 ` Felipe Contreras
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