[PATCH] doc: manpage: remove maximum title length

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 3, 2023, 05:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20230503052926.217219-1-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

DocBook Stylesheets limit the size of the manpage titles for some reason.

Even some of the longest git commands have no trouble fitting in 80 character terminals, so it's not clear why we would want to limit titles to 20 characters, especially when modern terminals are much bigger.

For example:

--- a/git-credential-cache--daemon.1
+++ b/git-credential-cache--daemon.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-GIT-CREDENTIAL-CAC(1)             Git Manual             GIT-CREDENTIAL-CAC(1)
+GIT-CREDENTIAL-CACHE--DAEMON(1)   Git Manual   GIT-CREDENTIAL-CACHE--DAEMON(1)

 NAME
        git-credential-cache--daemon - Temporarily store user credentials in
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ DESCRIPTION
 GIT
        Part of the git(1) suite

-Git omitted                       2023-05-02             GIT-CREDENTIAL-CAC(1)
+Git omitted                       2023-05-02   GIT-CREDENTIAL-CACHE--DAEMON(1)

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl
index a9c7ec69f4..e7aa5df2fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl
+++ b/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 <xsl:param name="man.output.quietly" select="1"/>
 <xsl:param name="refentry.meta.get.quietly" select="1"/>
 
+<!-- unset maximum length of title -->
+<xsl:param name="man.th.title.max.length"/>
+
 <!-- convert asciidoc callouts to man page format -->
 <xsl:template match="co">
 	<xsl:value-of select="concat('\fB(',substring-after(@id,'-'),')\fR')"/>

-- 
2.40.0+fc1