From: "Đoàn Trần Công Danh" <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC suggestion] Generate manpage directly with Asciidoctor
Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 19:27:10 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJUyHkYAIth0W9dY@danh.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3461c7b0-594d-989e-3048-2fc6583084ad@gmail.com>
On 2021-05-07 13:06:31+0700, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Asciidoctor has support for directly generating manpage, see [1].
While I'm impressed with this news.
> We support using Asciidoctor as drop-in replacement for original
> Asciidoc, but currently we need to use xmlto together with Asciidoc(tor)
> to produce manpages. However, most users don't inclined to install
> xmlto toolchain, partly because they had to download more than 300 MB
> of data just to install xmlto and its dependencies (including dblatex
> and texlive).
I'm pretty sure xmlto doesn't depend on dblatex and/or texlive.
I'm building Git and Git's documentation on different Linux boxes with
asciidoc, most of them don't have dblatex and/or texlive.
In fact, I only have texlive installed in my laptop.
I guess you're using Debian or one of its derived distribution?
Debian puts dblatex as xmlto's rec. [2]
I think you can use:
apt install --no-install-recommends xmlto
to avoid those recommendations.
> So completely migrating to Asciidoctor can eliminate xmlto requirement
> for generating manpage.
>
> What do you think about above?
Hm, I'm pretty sure Ruby (asciidoctor's language) is very hard to port.
Last I heard, it's buggy on some platforms.
I think we're better to do like this:
* If we're using asciidoc, we will use xmlto
* If we're using asciidoctor, we will generate man-pages with
asciidoctor directly
> [1]: https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor/latest/manpage-backend/
[2]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/xmlto
--
Danh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-07 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-07 6:06 [RFC suggestion] Generate manpage directly with Asciidoctor Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-07 12:02 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-07 22:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-07 22:57 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-08 1:42 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-07 12:27 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh [this message]
2021-05-07 12:47 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-07 23:03 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-08 4:27 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-07 20:25 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-07 22:19 ` Jeff King
2021-05-08 4:22 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-09 8:20 ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-09 18:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-10 18:43 ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-10 22:24 ` Jeff King
2021-05-11 4:27 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11 6:13 ` Jeff King
2021-05-11 8:03 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11 12:44 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-11 19:00 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11 19:09 ` Jeff King
2021-05-11 20:22 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11 23:14 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-12 1:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11 18:45 ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-11 19:07 ` Jeff King
2021-05-11 19:11 ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-11 20:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-11 9:04 ` Jean-Noël Avila
2021-05-11 18:54 ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-07 23:35 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-07 23:57 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-08 3:10 ` Jeff King
2021-05-08 3:23 ` Jeff King
2021-05-09 0:22 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-09 8:29 ` Martin Ågren
2021-05-07 22:48 ` Felipe Contreras
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