manpages can be rendered using the markdown output of mdbook, the rest
of the manual can generated out of the main doc/manual source tree. we
still use lowdown to actually render manpages instead of eg mdbook-man
because lowdown does generate reasonably good manpages (though that is
also somewhat debatable, but they're a lot better than mdbook-man).
doing this not only lets us drastically simplify the lowdown pipeline,
but also remove all custom {{#include}} handling since now mdbook does
all of it, even for the manpage builds. even the lowdown wrapper isn't
entirely necessary because lowdown can take all wrapper arguments with
command line flags rather than bits of input file content.
This also implements running mdbook in Meson, in order to generate the
manpages. The mdbook outputs are also installed in the usual location.
Co-authored-by: Qyriad <qyriad@qyriad.me>
Change-Id: I60193f9fd0f15d48872f071af35855cda2a0f40b
`nix eval --write-to` refuses to write to a directory that exists at
all, so now we generate in a temporary directory, and copy the generated
tree to the build directory. This is equivalent to what the Make
buildsystem did, actually, but hopefully more robust.
Future work: documenting the doc generation architecture in the
top-level meson.build outline comment.
Change-Id: Ic3eb6d26e3cc249a1c042fd3ced22d637ac66a69
This reverts commit 7095423374.
This seems to have broken running ninja on warm build directories, which
is not what we want. Reverted until we figure out something better
Change-Id: I9623ae078917e7c59a930bf8044a216501d4bb20
This puts the generated files where they are for the make system.
This is in preparation for further meson-mdbook stuff.
Change-Id: I934df6854a80af5ccf381cf1da0bda0187a8bcfc
this notably does *not* install the `nix3-manpages` manpage the old
system generated, mostly because that page was empty and just a bug
with a coat of documentation paint.
Change-Id: I7a4248a72e7bb5e0cc925a6311a33b6b72589569
eldritch horrors
Qyriad