{"id":4482,"date":"2012-07-30T21:15:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T01:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2014-03-10T06:51:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T10:51:21","slug":"doclifter-2-9-is-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4482","title":{"rendered":"doclifter 2.9 is released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve released doclifter 2.9, and as part of that process I&#8217;ve been testing it on the entire collection of manual pages on my system again. Because doclifter does mechanical translation of troff-based markups to DocBook-XML, one of the side effects of testing it is that I find lots of broken markup.  I&#8217;ll ship over 700 fix patches back to maintainers this time, though maybe not until after I get back from World Boardgaming Chapionships next week. <\/p>\n<p>Release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/esr\/doclifter\/\">here<\/a>, report on markup bugs found is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/esr\/doclifter\/bugs.html\">here<\/a>.  Yes, over 700 patches, but that&#8217;s actually a drop from previous passes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My last rampage through the man-page universe with fire and sword was in 2007.  Most (I&#8217;d say about 85%) of the patches I shipped then were accepted.  One particularly noticeable change is that in 2007, only a handful of pages identifiably had DocBook masters and could thus be skipped; in 2012 fully 7% of the entire corpus is like that.<\/p>\n<p>Which is good news &#8211; why, at that rate, we&#8217;ll be fully converted before the end of this century. :-)<\/p>\n<p>(For any of those who are wondering what the practical consequence is, think Web availability.  DocBook renders into HTML much more cleanly than conventional manual-page markup does.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve released doclifter 2.9, and as part of that process I&#8217;ve been testing it on the entire collection of manual pages on my system again. Because doclifter does mechanical translation of troff-based markups to DocBook-XML, one of the side effects of testing it is that I find lots of broken markup. I&#8217;ll ship over 700&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4482\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">doclifter 2.9 is released<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-on-my-website","category-software","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5369,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}