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[PATCH 0/2] man-db: Better parsing of man macros.

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Message #23 received at 77387 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sergey Trofimov <sarg <at> sarg.org.ru>
To: 77387 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Sergey Trofimov <sarg <at> sarg.org.ru>
Subject: [PATCH v1 2/2] man-db: Support mdoc-formatted man pages.
Date: Tue,  1 Apr 2025 21:32:00 +0200

* guix/man-db.scm (man-page->entry): Extract man name and section from
.Dt macro.

Change-Id: I02dc99d73dceecdb077315805025efad9a650e91
---
 guix/man-db.scm | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/guix/man-db.scm b/guix/man-db.scm
index 94231264f0..7601580c40 100644
--- a/guix/man-db.scm
+++ b/guix/man-db.scm
@@ -228,10 +228,13 @@ (define* (man-page->entry file #:optional (resolve identity))
                   ;; man 7 groff groff_mdoc groff_man
                   ;; look for metadata in macro invocations (lines starting with .)
                   (match (and (string-prefix? "." line) (man-macro-tokenize line))
-                    ((".TH" name (= string->number section) _ ...)
+                    ;; "Title Header" or "Document title"
+                    (((or ".TH" ".Dt") name (= string->number section) _ ...)
                      (loop name section synopsis kind))
+                    ;; "Section Header"
                     ((".SH" (or "NAME" "\"NAME\""))
                      (loop name section (read-synopsis port) kind))
+                    ;; include source
                     ((".so" link)
                      (match (and=> (resolve link)
                                    (cut man-page->entry <> resolve))
-- 
2.49.0

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