Hi Christoph,
> Switching to asciidoctor was the obvious thing to do although it's not a > simple drop-in replacment for a2x. Probably "asciidoctor --attribute > reproducible --backend=manpage" does the trick. Yes, that's the command to generate manpages in asciidoctor. > But I'm stuck with several regressions, see above. Also, given the fact > #884213 hasn't been addressed in months raises concerns whether using > asciidoctor was a wise decision. Fair point, thanks for pointing that out. I'll try to help the current asciidoctor maintainers fix those. I'll let you know when that's done. Thanks Joseph