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Re: [PATCH 1/2] doc: add an option to have Asciidoctor build man pages directly

From: Martin Ågren <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-13 17:30:28

On Wed, 12 May 2021 at 08:59, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:
We seem to have a problem with some escape codes. E.g.:

  -           of nothing). The other file, git-add--interactive.perl, has 403
  -           lines added and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the
  -           index, but working tree file has further modifications (one
  +           of nothing). The other file, git-add&#x2d;&#x2d;interactive.perl,
  +           has 403 lines added and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in
  +           the index, but working tree file has further modifications (one

and:

  -           Added content is represented by lines beginning with "+". You can
  -           prevent staging any addition lines by deleting them.
  +           Added content is represented by lines beginning with "&#43;". You
  +           can prevent staging any addition lines by deleting them.

which is a pretty bad regression.
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -aplus='+'
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -alitdd='\--'

seems to have done the trick for me at one point, but Todd had some
concerns [1] that it interacted badly with the html build, so we might
need to use a less aggressive choice of makefile variable to only affect
the direct manpage generation.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190323192756.GK4047@pobox.com/ (local)

Martin
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