man pages are littered with .ft C and others

Jakub Narebski <[email protected]> wrote Sun, Feb 03, 2008:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > [From] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/53457/focus=53458
> Julian Phillips:
> > Are you using docbook xsl 1.72?  There are known problems building the
> > manpages with that version.  1.71 works, and 1.73 should work when it get
> > released.

I was able to solve this problem with this patch, which adds a XSL file
used specifically for DOCBOOK_XSL_172=YesPlease and where dots and
backslashes are escaped properly so they won't be substituted to the
wrong thing further down the "DocBook XSL pipeline". Doing the escaping
in the existing callout.xsl breaks v1.70.1. Hopefully v1.73 will end
this part of the manpage nightmare.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Documentation/Makefile

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ man7dir=$(mandir)/man7
 
 ASCIIDOC=asciidoc
 ASCIIDOC_EXTRA =
+MANPAGE_XSL = callouts.xsl
 INSTALL?=install
 RM ?= rm -f
 DOC_REF = origin/man
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a asciidoc7compatible
 endif
 ifdef DOCBOOK_XSL_172
 ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a docbook-xsl-172
+MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-1.72.xsl
 endif
 
 #
@@ -159,7 +161,7 @@ $(MAN_HTML): %.html : %.txt
 
 %.1 %.5 %.7 : %.xml
 	$(RM) $@
-	xmlto -m callouts.xsl man $<
+	xmlto -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) man $<
 
 %.xml : %.txt
 	$(RM) $@+ $@

Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<!-- callout.xsl: converts asciidoc callouts to man page format -->
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
+<xsl:template match="co">
+	<xsl:value-of select="concat('&#x2593;fB(',substring-after(@id,'-'),')&#x2593;fR')"/>
+</xsl:template>
+<xsl:template match="calloutlist">
+	<xsl:text>&#x2302;sp&#10;</xsl:text>
+	<xsl:apply-templates/>
+	<xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
+</xsl:template>
+<xsl:template match="callout">
+	<xsl:value-of select="concat('&#x2593;fB',substring-after(@arearefs,'-'),'. &#x2593;fR')"/>
+	<xsl:apply-templates/>
+	<xsl:text>&#x2302;br&#10;</xsl:text>
+</xsl:template>
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>