Subject: RE: [RFC suggestion] Generate manpage directly with Asciidoctor

From: "Randall S. Becker" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 08:02:13 -0400

On May 7, 2021 2:07 AM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>To: Git Users <[email-masked]>
>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

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