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Since 76880f0 (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 git-for-windows#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 git/git-scm.com@a492d0565512. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
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