Re: [pacman-dev] asciidoc

On 9/18/07, Aaron Griffin wrote:

Eeek, I don't know which thread to reply to! Let's go with the new one. 8)

On 9/18/07, Xavier wrote:

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The big advantage this gives us is much more user-friendly editing of the manpages, much better HTML output (with linking between them), and the ability to do some macros and such that aren't from the 1970s.

I couldn't agree more with Dan here. Asciidoc documentation is a great boon, BUT asciidoc is a big nasty mess of an app. Still, nroff code can't be much prettier.

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On this subject, an user recently wanted to get informations fron the current HTML manpages, but they seem a bit outdated : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2007-September/015447.html But if they are going to be both updated and improved for 3.1 , its probably fine :)

Also archlinux.org/pacman could be updated for 3.0.6 .

I marked this, I will try and get to it tonight, but I won't be getting home for some time.

Taken care of (mostly). Just need someone to write up the ChangeLog entry and send it to me for GIT and then I will get it online, otherwise I'll do it sometime later tonight. -Dan