On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 11:57:32PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > It's not quite that simple. It requires changes to > asciidoctor-extensions.rb and we also need to consider > NO_MAN_BOLD_LITERAL and GNU_ROFF. The latter especially is likely to be > inconvenient, since according to the Makefile, it's impossible to write > man output that works across troff versions. > > We will also want to preserve the ability to use xmlto because we > currently have doc-diff which helps us find divergences in the behavior > of AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor, many of which affect all formats, and that > will be completely useless if we use two different rendering toolchains. Speaking of doc-diff: with that patch applied, try "./doc-diff --asciidoctor HEAD^ HEAD", which shows quite a few of the complications (another one seems to be that all of the linkgit macros are broken). -Peff
