Documentation: Fix some markdown formatting bugs.

Documentation/.gitignore

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 *.1
 /md-to-man
+*.html

Documentation/clean.do

@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-rm -f *~ .*~ *.1 t/*.1 md-to-man *.tmp t/*.tmp
-
+rm -f *~ .*~ *.1 t/*.1 md-to-man *.tmp t/*.tmp *.html */*.html

Documentation/md-to-man.do

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 redo-ifchange md2man.py
-if ./md2man.py </dev/null >/dev/null; then
-	echo './md2man.py $2.md.tmp'
+if ./md2man.py /dev/null /dev/null >/dev/null; then
+	echo './md2man.py $2.md.tmp $2.html'
 else
 	echo "Warning: md2man.py missing modules; can't generate manpages." >&2
 	echo "Warning: try this: sudo easy_install markdown BeautifulSoup" >&2

Documentation/md2man.py

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ def _text(bitlist):
         elif typ in ['strong', 'code']:
             out += '\\fB%s\\fR' % text
         else:
-            raise ValueError('unexpected tag %r inside %r' % (typ, tag.name))
+            raise ValueError('unexpected tag %r inside text' % (typ,))
     out = out.strip()
     out = re.sub(re.compile(r'^\s+', re.M), '', out)
     return out
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ def do_definition(tag):
             pre.append((typ,text))
     _boldline(pre)
     w.write(_text(post))
+    w.started = False
 
 
 def do_list(tag):
@@ -187,6 +188,7 @@ def do_list(tag):
         else:
             w.start_bullet()
             for xi in i:
+                if str(xi).strip():
                     do(xi)
                     w.end_para()
             w.end_bullet()
@@ -215,7 +217,7 @@ def do(tag):
             macro('.RE')
             w.end_para()
     elif name == 'p' or name == 'br':
-        g = re.match(re.compile(r'([^\n]*)\n +: +(.*)', re.S), str(tag))
+        g = re.match(re.compile(r'([^\n]*)\n *: +(.*)', re.S), str(tag))
         if g:
             # it's a definition list (which some versions of python-markdown
             # don't support, including the one in Debian-lenny, so we can't
@@ -238,11 +240,13 @@ DATE=''
 AUTHOR=''
 
 lines = []
-if len(sys.argv) > 1:
-    for n in sys.argv[1:]:
-        lines += open(n).read().decode('utf8').split('\n')
-else:
-    lines += sys.stdin.read().decode('utf8').split('\n')
+if len(sys.argv) != 3:
+    sys.stderr.write('usage: %s <infile.md> <outfile.html> >outfile.1\n')
+    sys.exit(99)
+
+infile = sys.argv[1]
+htmlfile = sys.argv[2]
+lines += open(infile).read().decode('utf8').split('\n')
 
 # parse pandoc-style document headers (not part of markdown)
 g = re.match(r'^%\s+(.*?)\((.*?)\)\s+(.*)$', lines[0])
@@ -266,9 +270,10 @@ if g:
 
 inp = '\n'.join(lines)
 if AUTHOR:
-    inp += ('\n# AUTHOR\n\n%s\n' % AUTHOR).replace('<', '\\<')
+    inp += ('\n# AUTHOR\n\n%s\n' % AUTHOR).replace('<', '&lt;')
 
 html = markdown.markdown(inp)
+open(htmlfile, 'w').write(html)
 soup = BeautifulSoup(html, convertEntities=BeautifulSoup.HTML_ENTITIES)
 
 macro('.TH', PROD.upper(), SECTION, DATE, VENDOR, GROUPNAME)

Documentation/redo-ood.md

@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ The list is not filtered in any way; it contains *all* the
 target filenames from the entire project.  Remember that
 the redo database may span more than just your project, so
 you might need to filter the list before using it.  (A
-useful heuristic might be to remove any line starting with
-'../' since it often refers to a target you don't care
+useful heuristic might be to remove any line starting
+with '../' since it often refers to a target you don't care
 about.)
 
 If you want a list of all targets, not just out-of-date

Documentation/redo-stamp.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ redo-stamp - detect if the current target has meaningfully changed
 
 # SYNOPSIS
 
-redo-stamp <\$3
+redo-stamp <$3
 
 
 # DESCRIPTION
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ are:
 
 - the actual target file contents:
 
-        redo-stamp <\$3
+        redo-stamp <$3
         
 - a list of filenames: