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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: groff .ft command use in asciidoc
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:52:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101117115245.GB23656@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101117101516.GA12416@burratino>

> This is in my opinion a bug: unless you use ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF, git's
> asciidoc.conf will include raw roff directives in the docbook markup
> it generates.  And then docbook will escape the periods, producing
> the output you see.

I see. Thanks for the explanation.

> 
> The workaround is very simple: set ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF to nonempty
> when you build documentation.

I will suggest to the opensuse git maintainers to set that variable.
 
> I think the only reason this is not the default is that no one has
> tested it with old DocBook XSL versions, but I'm not sure.
> Documentation/Makefile has some notes about this.

It would be nice if that worked out of the box.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-17 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-17  9:52 groff .ft command use in asciidoc Andi Kleen
2010-11-17 10:15 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-17 11:52   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-11-17 14:38   ` Jeff King
2010-11-17 15:48     ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-19 17:54       ` Jeff King
2010-11-19 18:22         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-19 18:37           ` Jeff King
2010-11-19 20:34         ` Drew Northup
2010-11-19 20:40           ` Jeff King
2010-11-19 20:53             ` Drew Northup
2010-11-19 22:58             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-20  1:48               ` Todd Zullinger
2010-11-18 17:47   ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
2010-11-18 21:11     ` Drew Northup
2010-11-18 23:15       ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández

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