Version strings

[Matthew Selsky]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 08:07:53PM -0600, Richard Laager via devel wrote:
> On 01/08/2018 07:58 PM, Richard Laager wrote:
> >> There was similar discussion of waf editing man pages to get the date on the 
> >> bottom left corner.
> > Since I already learned a bunch about waf substitutions for the path
> > embedding thing, this didn't take me long to implement. Here is the
> > merge request:
> > https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/merge_requests/643
> 
> I just re-read this. I see you said "date". I addressed the version
> number, not the date. I think the change is still good for that reason.
> 
> If someone can point out how to get asciidoc to show a date in the
> bottom left, I can figure out the substitution for it easily.

If we add:
":man version:  %VERSION% %DATE%"

asciidoc shows a manversion in the bottom left, but asciidoctor has dropped this attribute.

asciidoctor seems to be the future[0], so it this worth it?

[0]: https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc/commit/b0516e2d7a215910968469715fc63ad327b1941a#diff-be5f4f87508c3fae17491ecfbb4ef58bR227