cd2nroff/manage: use UTC when SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set

Make them independent of the TZ setting. Also set a date string like
YYYY-MM-DD to avoid a local month name in the date.

R

cd2nroff/manage: use UTC when SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set

Make them independent of the TZ setting. Also set a date string like
YYYY-MM-DD to avoid a local month name in the date.

Reported-by: Carlos Henrique Lima Melara
Fixes #13242
Closes #13243

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docs/libcurl: generate PROTOCOLS from meta-data

Remove the PROTOCOLS section from the source files completely and
instead generate them based on the header data in the curldown files.

docs/libcurl: generate PROTOCOLS from meta-data

Remove the PROTOCOLS section from the source files completely and
instead generate them based on the header data in the curldown files.

It also generates TLS backend information for options marked for TLS as
protocol.

Closes #13175

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docs/libcurl: add TLS backend info for all TLS options

All man pages that are listed to be for TLS now must also specify
exactly what TLS backends the option works for, or use All if the

docs/libcurl: add TLS backend info for all TLS options

All man pages that are listed to be for TLS now must also specify
exactly what TLS backends the option works for, or use All if they all
work.

cd2nroff makes sure this is done and that the listed backends exist.

Closes #13168

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docs: make each libcurl man specify protocol(s)

The mandatory header now has a mandatory list of protocols for which the
manpage is relevant.

Most man pages already has a "PROTO

docs: make each libcurl man specify protocol(s)

The mandatory header now has a mandatory list of protocols for which the
manpage is relevant.

Most man pages already has a "PROTOCOLS" section, but this introduces a
stricter way to specify the relevant protocols.

cd2nroff verifies that at least one protocol is mentioned (which can be
`*`).

This information is not used just yet, but A) the PROTOCOLS section can
now instead get generated and get a unified wording across all manpages
and B) this allows us to more reliably filter/search for protocol
specific manpages/options.

Closes #13166

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docs: ascii version of manpage without nroff

Create ASCII version of manpage without nroff

- build src/tool_hugegelp.c from the ascii manpage
- move the the manpage and the as

docs: ascii version of manpage without nroff

Create ASCII version of manpage without nroff

- build src/tool_hugegelp.c from the ascii manpage
- move the the manpage and the ascii version build to docs/cmdline-opts
- remove all use of nroff from the build process
- should make the build entirely reproducible (by avoiding nroff)

- partly reverts 2620aa9 to build libcurl option man pages one by one
in cmake because the appveyor builds got all crazy until I did

The ASCII version of the manpage

- is built with gen.pl, just like the manpage is
- has a right-justified column making the appearance similar to the previous
version
- uses a 4-space indent per level (instead of the old version's 7)
- does not do hyphenation of words (which nroff does)

History

We first made the curl build use nroff for building the hugehelp file in
December 1998, for curl 5.2.

Closes #13047

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cd2nroff: gen: make `\>` in input to render as plain '>' in output

The same (copy and pasted) fix/mistake as in gen.pl

cd2nroff: remove backticks from titles

docs: make curldown do angle brackets like markdown

Make sure we use \< and \> in markdown all over so that it renders
correctly, on GitHub and elsewhere. cd2nroff now outputs a warning

docs: make curldown do angle brackets like markdown

Make sure we use \< and \> in markdown all over so that it renders
correctly, on GitHub and elsewhere. cd2nroff now outputs a warning if it
finds an unescaled angle bracket.

Ref: #12854
Closes #12869

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cd2nroff: use perl 'strict' and 'warnings'

- Use strict and warnings pragmas.

- If open() fails then show the reason.

- Set STDIN io layer :crlf so that input is properly r

cd2nroff: use perl 'strict' and 'warnings'

- Use strict and warnings pragmas.

- If open() fails then show the reason.

- Set STDIN io layer :crlf so that input is properly read on Windows.

- When STDIN is used as input, the filename $f is now set to "STDIN".

Various error messages in single() use $f for the filename and this way
it is not undefined when STDIN.

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/12819

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cd2nroff: fix duplicate output issue

Assisted-by: Jay Satiro
Fixes https://github.com/curl/curl-www/issues/321
Closes #12818

cmake: speed up curldown processing, enable by default

- cmake: enable `BUILD_DOCS` by default (this controls converting and
installing `.3` files from `.md` sources)

- cmake:

cmake: speed up curldown processing, enable by default

- cmake: enable `BUILD_DOCS` by default (this controls converting and
installing `.3` files from `.md` sources)

- cmake: speed up generating `.3` files by using a single command per
directory, instead of a single command per file. This reduces external
commands by about a thousand. (There remains some CMake logic kicking
in resulting in 500 -one per file- external `-E touch_nocreate` calls.)

- cd2nroff: add ability to process multiple input files.

- cd2nroff: add `-k` option to use the source filename to form the
output filename. (instead of the default in-file `Title:` line.)

Follow-up to 3f08d80b2244524646ce86915c585509ac54fb4c
Follow-up to ea0b575dab86a3c44dd1d547dc500276266aa382 #12753
Follow-up to eefcc1bda4bccd800f5a56a0fe17a2f44a96e88b #12730

Closes #12762

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docs: introduce "curldown" for libcurl man page format

curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown
inspired with differences:

- Each file has a set of

docs: introduce "curldown" for libcurl man page format

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

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