On May 7, 2021 2:07 AM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: >To: Git Users <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [RFC suggestion] Generate manpage directly with Asciidoctor >Asciidoctor has support for directly generating manpage, see [1]. > >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). > >So completely migrating to Asciidoctor can eliminate xmlto requirement for >generating manpage. > >What do you think about above? Our toolchain does not support asciidoctor itself because of porting issues. I am not sure it is available everywhere. -Randall -- Brief whoami: NonStop developer since approximately 211288444200000000 UNIX developer since approximately 421664400 -- In my real life, I talk too much.
