Re: [PATCH] Tweak asciidoc output to work with broken docbook-xsl

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org> writes:

> docbook-xsl v1.68 incorrectly converts "<screen>" from docbook to
> manpage by not rendering it verbatim. v1.69 handles it correctly, but
> not many current popular distributions ship with it.
>
> asciidoc by default converts "listingblock" to "<screen>". This change
> causes asciidoc in git to convert "listingblock" to "<literallayout>", which
> both old and new docbook-xsl handle correctly.

Have you tested html generation side?  With 1.68 I seem to be
getting an disaster.

How about this instead?

---
diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
index fa0877d..7ce7151 100644
--- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
+++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ ifdef::backend-docbook[]
 {0#</citerefentry>}
 endif::backend-docbook[]
 
+ifdef::backend-docbook[]
+# "unbreak" docbook-xsl v1.68 for manpages. v1.69 works with or without this.
+[listingblock]
+<example><title>{title}</title>
+<literallayout>
+|
+</literallayout>
+{title#}</example>
+endif::backend-docbook[]
+
 ifdef::backend-xhtml11[]
 [gitlink-inlinemacro]
 <a href="{target}.html">{target}{0?({0})}</a>