Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix git-clone manpage not to refer to itself

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Nov 20, 2007, 09:41 UTC
Message-ID: <3FC9A391-AED0-4988-B1F7-EE5C06AD1137@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711191430460.16728@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

El 19/11/2007, a las 14:35, Johannes Schindelin escribió:

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> - it makes writing the perl script to do a very tiny subset of  
> asciidoc
>  formatting much harder.  We encounter enough problems with the  
> different
>  versions of asciidoc/docbook combinations that I think this perl  
> script
>  would be actually useful.
>
> I know that the user manual uses some advanced features, too, but it  
> did
> not use ifdef in the main text, for example, let alone nested ifdefs,
> which your patch would encourage much more than the source before.

Out of curiosity, have you done any more work on that WIP AsciiDoc replacement since you last wrote to the list about it back in October?

I'm on a new OS install now, so just yesterday and today I had to set up the AsciiDoc/DocBook/xmlto toolchain again, and was reminded of how painful it was. At least on Mac OS X, it requires installing a bunch of dependencies (and specific versions of them otherwise it won't work), hacking Makefiles, installing a bunch of XSL and DTDs, and setting up XML catalogs. Doable but annoying.

Cheers, Wincent