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Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Macros for Asciidoctor support

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 23, 2017, 18:59 UTC
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"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
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> There are two major processors of AsciiDoc: AsciiDoc itself, and Asciidoctor.
> Both have advantages and disadvantages, but traditionally the documentation has
> been built with AsciiDoc, leading to some surprising breakage when building with
> Asciidoctor.  Partially, this is due to the need to specify a significant number
> of macros on the command line when building with Asciidoctor.
>
> This series cleans up some issues building the documentation with Asciidoctor
> and provides two knobs, USE_ASCIIDOCTOR, which controls building with
> Asciidoctor, and ASCIIDOCTOR_EXTENSIONS_LAB, which controls the location of the
> Asciidoctor Extensions Lab, which is necessary to expand the linkgit macro.
>
> The need for the extensions could be replaced with a small amount of Ruby code,
> if that's considered desirable.  Previous opinions on doing so were negative,
> however.
>
> In the process, I found several issues with cat-texi.perl, which have been
> fixed.  It has also been modernized to use strict, warnings, and lexical file
> handles.  I also made an attempt to produce more diffable texi files; I may
> follow up with additional series along this line to make the documentation build
> reproducibly.

Thanks. We'd probably want INSTALL to talk about Asciidoctor once this matures, as it is very simple requirement for the builder to have to just set USE_ASCIIDOCTOR, but the version requirement and stuff might be still confusing.

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Message 12 of 24 in “Macros for Asciidoctor support”
  1. 0/7 Macros for Asciidoctor supportbrian m. carlson, Jan 22, 2017
  2. 1/7 Documentation: fix warning in cat-texi.perlbrian m. carlson, Jan 22, 2017
  3. 4/7 Documentation: sort sources for gitman.texibrian m. carlson, Jan 22, 2017
  4. 3/7 Documentation: remove unneeded argument in cat-texi.perlbrian m. carlson, Jan 22, 2017
  5. 2/7 Documentation: modernize cat-texi.perlbrian m. carlson, Jan 22, 2017
  6. 6/7 Documentation: move dblatex arguments into variablebrian m. carlson, Jan 22, 2017
  7. 7/7 Makefile: add a knob to enable the use of Asciidoctorbrian m. carlson, Jan 22, 2017
  8. Øyvind A. HolmJan 23, 2017
  9. brian m. carlsonJan 23, 2017
  10. Øyvind A. HolmJan 25, 2017
  11. 5/7 Documentation: add XSLT to fix DocBook for Texinfobrian m. carlson, Jan 22, 2017
  12. Junio C HamanoJan 23, 2017
  13. Johannes SchindelinJan 25, 2017
  14. Jeff KingJan 25, 2017
  15. brian m. carlsonJan 25, 2017
  16. Jeff KingJan 25, 2017
  17. brian m. carlsonJan 25, 2017
  18. Documentation: implement linkgit macro for Asciidoctorbrian m. carlson, Jan 26, 2017
  19. Jeff KingJan 26, 2017
  20. Eric WongJan 26, 2017
  21. Johannes SchindelinJan 26, 2017
  22. Eric WongJan 26, 2017
  23. brian m. carlsonJan 27, 2017
  24. Junio C HamanoJan 31, 2017

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