curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown
inspired with differences:
- Each file has a set of leading headers with meta-data
- Supports a small subset of markdown
- Uses .md file extensions for editors/IDE/GitHub to treat them nicely
- Generates man pages very similar to the previous ones
- Generates man pages that still convert nicely to HTML on the website
- Detects and highlights mentions of curl symbols automatically (when
their man page section is specified)
tools:
- cd2nroff: converts from curldown to nroff man page
- nroff2cd: convert an (old) nroff man page to curldown
- cdall: convert many nroff pages to curldown versions
- cd2cd: verifies and updates a curldown to latest curldown
This setup generates .3 versions of all the curldown versions at build time.
CI:
Since the documentation is now technically markdown in the eyes of many
things, the CI runs many more tests and checks on this documentation,
including proselint, link checkers and tests that make sure we capitalize the
first letter after a period...
Closes#12730
- delete completed TODO from `./CMakeLists.txt`.
- convert a C++ comment to C89 in `./CMake/CurlTests.c`.
- delete duplicate EOLs from EOF.
- add missing EOL at EOF.
- delete whitespace at EOL (except from expected test results).
- convert tabs to spaces.
- convert CRLF EOLs to LF in GHA yaml.
- text casing fixes in `./CMakeLists.txt`.
- fix a codespell typo in `packages/OS400/initscript.sh`.
Closes#11772
These two functions were added in 7.44.0 when CURLMOPT_PUSHFUNCTION was
introduced but always lived a life in the shadows, embedded in the
CURLMOPT_PUSHFUNCTION man page. Until now.
It makes better sense and gives more visibility to document them in
their own stand-alone man pages.
Closes#11286
- they are mostly pointless in all major jurisdictions
- many big corporations and projects already don't use them
- saves us from pointless churn
- git keeps history for us
- the year range is kept in COPYING
checksrc is updated to allow non-year using copyright statements
Closes#10205
This spellchecker checks markdown files. For this reason this job
converts all man pages in the repository to markdown with pandoc before
the check runs.
The perl script 'cleanspell' filters out details from the man page in
the process, to avoid the spellchecker trying to spellcheck things it
can't. Like curl specific symbols and the SYNOPSIS and EXAMPLE sections
of libcurl man pages.
The spell checker does not check words in sections that are within pre,
strong and em tags.
'spellcheck.words' is a custom word list with additional accepted words.
Closes#9523
