From: David Bremner Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 12:11:29 +0000 (+2100) Subject: Re: [PATCH] devel: make man-to-mdwn.pl to work with generated manual pages X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f20f82dcf1b408cf06de38f1bc81b6886ea09d23;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: [PATCH] devel: make man-to-mdwn.pl to work with generated manual pages --- diff --git a/34/fe9863d8b81492e6a48d490f383b9393c30d86 b/34/fe9863d8b81492e6a48d490f383b9393c30d86 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..63e41c9b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/34/fe9863d8b81492e6a48d490f383b9393c30d86 @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652D0431FBF + for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 05:11:39 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id Rzn8YpSvsGGD for ; + Sun, 13 Jul 2014 05:11:33 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from yantan.tethera.net (yantan.tethera.net [199.188.72.155]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 78961431FBC + for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 05:11:33 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from remotemail by yantan.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.80) + (envelope-from ) + id 1X6Icv-0006ng-24; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:11:33 -0300 +Received: (nullmailer pid 6627 invoked by uid 1000); Sun, 13 Jul 2014 + 12:11:29 -0000 +From: David Bremner +To: Tomi Ollila +Subject: Re: [PATCH] devel: make man-to-mdwn.pl to work with generated manual + pages +In-Reply-To: <1399497879-27392-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> +References: <1399497879-27392-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.18.1+29~gb5327d4 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:11:29 -0300 +Message-ID: <87zjgdfoge.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +Cc: Notmuch Mail +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 12:11:39 -0000 + +Tomi Ollila writes: + +> The new manual pages converted from rst using sphinx or rst2man +> has somewhat different syntax. man-to-mdwn.pl is now adjusted +> to produce even better output from this syntax (a bug ot two +> was fixed along the adjustents done). +> This tool still produces better results than just using the +> html pages generated using sphinx / rst2html. For example those +> tools don't create inter-page hyperlinks -- and the preformatted +> pages written by man-to-mdwn.pl just works well with manual page +> content. + +I'm marking this 'moreinfo' to remind Tomi to investigate why it doesn't +work well for me in Debian testing when he gets back to it. I get about +60 columns of text, and no links. + +d