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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste•net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Documentation: move some AsciiDoc parameters into variables
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:43:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq61flvzay.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1413070656-241955-4-git-send-email-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> (brian m. carlson's message of "Sat, 11 Oct 2014 23:37:35 +0000")

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste•net> writes:

> Asciidoctor takes slightly different arguments from AsciiDoc in some
> cases.  It has a different name for the HTML backend and the "docbook"
> backend produces DocBook 5, not DocBook 4.5.  Also, Asciidoctor does not
> accept the -f option.  Move these values into variables so that they can
> be overridden by users wishing to use Asciidoctor instead of Asciidoc.
>
> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste•net>
> ---

I think it makes sense to make these customizable, but I wonder if
it makes the result easier to maintain if we make units of logical
definitions larger, e.g.

	ASCIIDOC = asciidoc
        TXT_TO_MANHTML = $(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 -d manpage $(ASCIIDOC_CONF)
        TXT_TO_ARTICLE = $(ASCIIDOC) -b docbook -d article
	...

ASCIIDOC_EXTRA may want to apply all of them, even though I see that
we do not feed it to OBSOLETE_HTML right now.  It may also be that
$(ASCIIDOC_CONF) and -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) could be shared
among the ones that currently do not have.

Then the above would become something like:

	ASCIIDOC = asciidoc
	ASCIIDOC_COMMON = $(ASCIIDOC) \
        	$(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) $(ASCIIDOC_CONF) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION)
        TXT_TO_MANHTML = $(ASCIIDOC_COMMON) -b xhtml11 -d manpage
        ...

and would further simplify this part

>  $(MAN_HTML): %.html : %.txt asciidoc.conf
>  	$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
> -	$(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 -d manpage -f asciidoc.conf \
> +	$(ASCIIDOC) -b $(ASCIIDOC_HTML) -d manpage $(ASCIIDOC_CONF) \
>  		$(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) -o $@+ $< && \

into just

	$(TXT_TO_MANHTML) -o $@+ $<

After all, our output formats are fairly limited, I would think.
Are there too many different variants and exceptions to make such an
approach infeasible?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-15 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-11 23:37 [PATCH 0/4] Allow building Git with Asciidoctor brian m. carlson
2014-10-11 23:37 ` [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: adjust document title underlining brian m. carlson
2014-10-13 20:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-11 23:37 ` [PATCH 2/4] Documentation: fix mismatched delimiters in git-imap-send brian m. carlson
2014-10-11 23:37 ` [PATCH 3/4] Documentation: move some AsciiDoc parameters into variables brian m. carlson
2014-10-15 20:43   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-10-16  1:52     ` brian m. carlson
2014-10-11 23:37 ` [PATCH 4/4] Documentation: implement linkgit macro for Asciidoctor brian m. carlson
2014-10-13 20:41 ` [PATCH 0/4] Allow building Git with Asciidoctor Junio C Hamano
2014-10-14  0:34   ` brian m. carlson
2014-10-14 10:07     ` Jakub Narębski
2014-10-14 11:26       ` brian m. carlson
2014-10-14  9:51 ` Jeff King
2014-10-14 17:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-15  1:17     ` brian m. carlson
2014-10-15 17:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-10-15 11:24   ` Thomas Braun
2014-10-15 23:52     ` brian m. carlson
2014-10-16 22:53 ` Philip Oakley

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