On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 02:25:11PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Actually, looking closer, the information seems to be lost entirely. > > Asciidoc renders this to <literal> in the XML, but docbook seems to > > throw it away when converting to a manpage. In theory it's possible to > > apply our own xsl style to turn this into something else, and I think > > that is a better solution than just trying to fix this one spot. > > When I check the asciidoc output for manpages (which I rarely do), I often > render it to Postscript to see the typesetting. I guess not many people > consider manpages are for printing anymore but are solely for monospaced > terminal consumption these days. How do you render it? From the XML, or from the roff? Because if I am reading it right (which it is entirely possible that I am not), the information is lost in the roff version. And that is the version I would expect people to be looking at (via man -Tps, or just plain man). -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
