On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 05:13:47PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > 2) The Makefile.am now uses the standard "man1_MANS" file type to > describe the generated files. That should make local installation > rules unnecessary. Not sure whether it also handles the > "transform" stuff or not. For now I've removed it.
We'll need to support the transform stuff, as I know some packagers use it. > 3) There's a new, experimental page "fvwm3commands.adoc" which > has a header and then just includes the file > fvwm3_commands.section. This file is generated from fvwm3.adoc by > extracting all text between the two comments > > // BEGIN 'commands' > ... > // END 'commands' I think this is a good approach. Something in the back of mind tells me this is something which asciidoc(tor) supports, although it's a moot point as this is lightweight enough that it's not going to introduce any overhead. > Sections to extract are listed in the variable "EXTRACT_SECIONS". > For now, all man pages simply depend on all section files. To > build real dependencies we'd have to extract the include > directives from the .adoc files, but this seems to be overkill. git.git do something like this for their built documentation (also written in asciidoc). But I suspect we won't need this -- it's probably going to be more relevant if we ever do something about the *content* -- which is a different issue entirely to just sorting out the structure. > 4) Also removed the "QUIET_ASCIIDOC" thing because it seems to be > pointless to suppress single-line rules in the output. (Don't > care much about it, though.) Hmm. I'm sure I added that because of some weird CI/CD interactions I was seeing with Github Actions, but I think that's now solved. > 5) fvwm3.1 still contains everything. I'd like to rename that to > fvwm3all.1 and then find a way to create fvwm3.1 without the > sections that have their own page, containing placeholders that > point to the other pages. Agreed. I'm sure there's an asciidoc(tor)-specific way of being able to do this. > Seems to do what is intended; "make install" and "make uninstall" > work fine, but I haven't tried to build and test a distro from > that. Worked well for me. This work is now being tracked here: https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/pull/637 Via the `ta/dv-manpage-sections` branch. Kindly, Thomas
