[xmonad] using cmark instead of Pandoc in GenerateManPages.hs

[Brandon Allbery]

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On 7/16/20, Adam Sjøgren <asjo at koldfront.dk> wrote:
> Adam writes:
>
>> One of the Debian developers maintaining the Pandoc package remarked:
>>
>>   > I no longer use xmonad myself, but remember frm when I did that the
>>   > biggest frustration was that you'd need a working _development_
>>   > environment, and each time Haskell packages went out of sync (using
>>   > Debian unstable), xmonad was one of the last ones to get back in
>>   > sync. I imagine that a decoupling from Pandoc might change that.
>
> [...]
>
>> I will be happy to take a stab at changing GenerateManPage to use cmark
>> instead of Pandoc, if it sounds useful to you.
>
> I have tried doing so now - Pandoc does more than cmark, so it's more
> intrusive than I would have liked.
>
> The most prominent downside, I think, is the lack of table-of-contents
> generation.
>
> The changes are on the use-cmark branch in this repository:
>
>  · https://koldfront.dk/git/xmonad/
>
> commit d5b8d08¹ (code, templates) and 9eb731f² (resulting generated
> pages respectively.
>
>
>   Best regards,
>
>     Adam
>
>
> ¹ https://koldfront.dk/git/xmonad/commit/?id=d5b8d08
> ² https://koldfront.dk/git/xmonad/commit/?id=9eb731f
>
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