DocBook Stylesheets limit the size of the manpage titles for some
reason.
Even some of the longest git commands have no trouble fitting in 80
character terminals, so it's not clear why we would want to limit titles
to 20 characters, especially when modern terminals are much bigger.
For example:
--- a/git-credential-cache--daemon.1
+++ b/git-credential-cache--daemon.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-GIT-CREDENTIAL-CAC(1) Git Manual GIT-CREDENTIAL-CAC(1)
+GIT-CREDENTIAL-CACHE--DAEMON(1) Git Manual GIT-CREDENTIAL-CACHE--DAEMON(1)
NAME
git-credential-cache--daemon - Temporarily store user credentials in
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ DESCRIPTION
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
-Git omitted 2023-05-02 GIT-CREDENTIAL-CAC(1)
+Git omitted 2023-05-02 GIT-CREDENTIAL-CACHE--DAEMON(1)
Moreover, asciidoctor manpage backend doesn't limit the title length, so
we probably want to do the same for docbook backends for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Since v1 the example diff in the commit message has been indented and an
extra paragraph explaining the situation with asciidoctor manpage
backend was added.
Range-diff against v1:
1: b356b40db1 ! 1: ea17191bd5 doc: manpage: remove maximum title length
@@ Commit message
For example:
- --- a/git-credential-cache--daemon.1
- +++ b/git-credential-cache--daemon.1
- @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
- -GIT-CREDENTIAL-CAC(1) Git Manual GIT-CREDENTIAL-CAC(1)
- +GIT-CREDENTIAL-CACHE--DAEMON(1) Git Manual GIT-CREDENTIAL-CACHE--DAEMON(1)
+ --- a/git-credential-cache--daemon.1
+ +++ b/git-credential-cache--daemon.1
+ @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+ -GIT-CREDENTIAL-CAC(1) Git Manual GIT-CREDENTIAL-CAC(1)
+ +GIT-CREDENTIAL-CACHE--DAEMON(1) Git Manual GIT-CREDENTIAL-CACHE--DAEMON(1)
- NAME
- git-credential-cache--daemon - Temporarily store user credentials in
- @@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ DESCRIPTION
- GIT
- Part of the git(1) suite
+ NAME
+ git-credential-cache--daemon - Temporarily store user credentials in
+ @@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ DESCRIPTION
+ GIT
+ Part of the git(1) suite
- -Git omitted 2023-05-02 GIT-CREDENTIAL-CAC(1)
- +Git omitted 2023-05-02 GIT-CREDENTIAL-CACHE--DAEMON(1)
+ -Git omitted 2023-05-02 GIT-CREDENTIAL-CAC(1)
+ +Git omitted 2023-05-02 GIT-CREDENTIAL-CACHE--DAEMON(1)
+
+ Moreover, asciidoctor manpage backend doesn't limit the title length, so
+ we probably want to do the same for docbook backends for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl
index a9c7ec69f4..e7aa5df2fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl
+++ b/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
<xsl:param name="man.output.quietly" select="1"/>
<xsl:param name="refentry.meta.get.quietly" select="1"/>
+<!-- unset maximum length of title -->
+<xsl:param name="man.th.title.max.length"/>
+
<!-- convert asciidoc callouts to man page format -->
<xsl:template match="co">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('\fB(',substring-after(@id,'-'),')\fR')"/>
--
2.40.0+fc1
