From 5ce10ed0c8c45c67e5c524a876cf7b4ef9a96f14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bremner Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 20:04:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH v2] devel: make man-to-mdwn.pl to work with generated manual pages --- ed/624eb26b362e9cb921394f6ce4e2958393c92c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ed/624eb26b362e9cb921394f6ce4e2958393c92c diff --git a/ed/624eb26b362e9cb921394f6ce4e2958393c92c b/ed/624eb26b362e9cb921394f6ce4e2958393c92c new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e35e63dc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/ed/624eb26b362e9cb921394f6ce4e2958393c92c @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +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 1B0DE431FAF + for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2014 11:05:09 -0800 (PST) +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 YfYT8XIreqMK for ; + Sun, 2 Nov 2014 11:05:01 -0800 (PST) +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 9C944431FAE + for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2014 11:05:01 -0800 (PST) +Received: from remotemail by yantan.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.80) + (envelope-from ) + id 1Xl0SR-0007r6-K3; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:04:59 -0400 +Received: (nullmailer pid 22030 invoked by uid 1000); Sun, 02 Nov 2014 + 19:04:54 -0000 +From: David Bremner +To: Tomi Ollila , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] devel: make man-to-mdwn.pl to work with generated + manual pages +In-Reply-To: <1407173972-28090-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> +References: <1407173972-28090-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.18.2+156~g3cc8ed5 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.4.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 20:04:54 +0100 +Message-ID: <87fve1h19l.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi +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, 02 Nov 2014 19:05:09 -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. The changes also +> include using utf-8 locale (e.g. for tables and generated hypens) +> and and quite a few bugs fixes. +> 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. + +Pushed, along with the successor. + +d -- 2.26.2