manpage backend missing NAME in output about asciidoctor-backends HOT 5 OPEN

I think this has to do with a model change in Asciidoctor core. I think it now needs to be manually inserted based on attribute values.

See manname and manpurpose attributes.

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I started migrating this backend into asciidoctor core. I will update asciidoctor/asciidoctor#651 with a PR soon. Initially I am not going fancy, just enough to render the asciidoctor man page. I will probably leave tables and code blocks for a later iteration. I am just hoping this can make it into asciidoctorj eventually.

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Indeed. That is definitely the plan.

Btw, I had started working on this with a custom Ruby-based converter, which I just forgot to post. Perhaps you'll find it helpful in getting the converter class together.

https://gist.github.com/mojavelinux/a086e542a145a7709b98

That's actually what I use to convert the Asciidoctor manpage, I think (actually, I kind of forget...that really needs to be automated too).

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The issue to bring it into core is here:

asciidoctor/asciidoctor#651

One of the reasons I've hesitated so far is that I want to try to avoid having to undo the substitutions (aka the manify method) by having an option to skip them globally in the first place. However, there's no reason we can't move forward now and just update the converter later.

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I posted what I did in asciidoctor/asciidoctor#651. Let me know what you think of it. I didn't clean up the things that I haven't updated but I am wondering if I should or not (just in case someone wants to use some of that, they can easily see where they need to change stuff).

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