Re: groff .ft command use in asciidoc
> This is in my opinion a bug: unless you use ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF, git's
> asciidoc.conf will include raw roff directives in the docbook markup
> it generates. And then docbook will escape the periods, producing
> the output you see.
I see. Thanks for the explanation.
>
> The workaround is very simple: set ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF to nonempty
> when you build documentation.
I will suggest to the opensuse git maintainers to set that variable.
> I think the only reason this is not the default is that no one has
> tested it with old DocBook XSL versions, but I'm not sure.
> Documentation/Makefile has some notes about this.
It would be nice if that worked out of the box.
-Andi
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