asciidoctor: fix `synopsis` rendering

Since 76880f0510c (doc: git-clone: apply new documentation formatting
guidelines, 2024-03-29), the synopsis of `git clone`'s manual page is
rendered differently than before; Its parent commit did the same for
`git init`.

The result looks quite nice. When rendered with AsciiDoc, that is. When
rendered using AsciiDoctor and displayed in a graphical web browser such
as Firefox, Chrome, Edge, etc, the result is quite unpleasant to my eye,
reading something like this:

	SYNOPSIS

	 git clone
	  [
	 --template=
	 <template-directory>]
		  [
	 -l
	 ] [
	 -s
	 ] [
	 --no-hardlinks
	 ] [
	 -q
	 ] [
	[... continuing like this ...]

The reason is that AsciiDoctor's default style sheet contains this (see
https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/blob/854923b15533/src/stylesheets/asciidoctor.css#L519-L521
for context):

	pre > code {
	  display: block;
	}

It is this `display: block` that forces the parts that are enclosed in
`<code>` tags (such as the `git clone` or the `--template=` part) to be
rendered on their own line.

Side note: This seems not to affect console web browsers like `lynx` or
`w3m`, most likely because most style sheet directions cannot be
respected in text terminals and therefore they seem to punt on style
sheets altogether.

To fix this, let's apply the method recommended by AsciiDoctor in
https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor/latest/html-backend/default-stylesheet/#customize-docinfo
to partially override AsciiDoctor's default style sheet so that the
`<code>` sections of the synopsis are no longer each rendered on their
own, individual lines.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5063.

Even on the Git home page, where AsciiDoctor's default stylesheet is
_not_ used, this change resulted in some unpleasant rendering where not
only the font is changed for the `<code>` sections of the synopsis, but
padding and a different background color make the visual impression
quite uneven. This has been addressed in the meantime, via
https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/commit/a492d0565512.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/.gitignore b/Documentation/.gitignore
index a48448de32f98b1a054b36e886ea920bccebc494..d11567fbbe71352e1385bb3af88bcee29808d60c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/.gitignore
+++ b/Documentation/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 *.xml
 *.html
+!/docinfo.html
 *.[1-8]
 *.made
 *.texi

diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 3f2383a12c77d04f027c64a0b6aed5ad7305e271..78e407e4bd1608eb4d48e854af112ddc6bff8752 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK = docbook5
 ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -acompat-mode -atabsize=8
 ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -I. -rasciidoctor-extensions
 ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -alitdd='&\#x2d;&\#x2d;'
+ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -adocinfo=shared
 ASCIIDOC_DEPS = asciidoctor-extensions.rb GIT-ASCIIDOCFLAGS
 DBLATEX_COMMON =
 XMLTO_EXTRA += --skip-validation

diff --git a/Documentation/docinfo.html b/Documentation/docinfo.html
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..fb3560e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/docinfo.html
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<style>
+pre>code {
+   display: inline;
+}
+</style>