hurl/docs/gen_manpage.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
import re


def header(version):
    return '.TH hurl 1 "DATE" "hurl %s" " Hurl Manual"' % (version)


def version():
    p = re.compile('version = "(.*)"')
    for line in open('../Cargo.toml', 'r').readlines():
        m = p.match(line)
        if m:
            return m.group(1)
    return None


def process_code_block(s):
    output = ''
    indent = False
    for line in s.split('\n'):
        if indent and line.startswith('```'):
            indent = False
        elif not indent and line.startswith('```'):
            indent = True
        else:
            if line != '':
                if indent:
                    output += '    '
                output += line
            output += '\n'

    return output
    #p.sub('\\\\f[C]\\1\\\\f[R]', s)


def convert_md(s):

     p = re.compile('^###\s+(.*)')
     s = p.sub('.IP "\\1"', s)

     p = re.compile('^##')
     s = p.sub('.SH', s)


     p = re.compile('\*\*(.*)\*\*\s+')
     s = p.sub('.B \\1\n', s)


     # Remove link Text
     p = re.compile('\[(.*)\]\(.*\)')
     s = p.sub('\\\\fI\\1\\\\fP', s)

     # Remove local anchor
     p = re.compile('{#.*}')
     s = p.sub('', s)
     return s


def main():
    input_file = sys.argv[1]
    data = open(input_file).readlines()
    print(header(version()))

    s = ''.join([convert_md(line) for line in data])

    s = process_code_block(s)
    print(s)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()