Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/git-gc: improve description of --auto

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:38:50PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

I am hunting this down right now. asciidoc _does_ generate
XML <literal>foo</literal> for `foo`, but it looks like docbook is
throwing that away when converting to manpages. Hopefully there is an
easy tweak...

Ugh. Looks like Junio came up with a solution to this in 524e5ffc
(although it was for literallayout sections, I think the same technique
could be applied). However, it had problems with docbook 1.69, and was
reverted in 63c21c49.

Julian Phillips added monospacing of listingblocks in 281a53bb, but that
technique is only applicable to asciidoc "blocks", which I think won't
work in this instance.

It really seems silly that docbook doesn't monospace <literal>s when
converting to manpages. Perhaps somebody who knows more about docbook
than I do can say more.

-Peff