this converts meta.doc into an md pointer, not an xml pointer. since we
no longer need xml for manual chapters we can also remove support for
manual chapters from md-to-db.sh
since pandoc converts smart quotes to docbook quote elements and our
nixos-render-docs does not we lose this distinction in the rendered
output. that's probably not that bad, our stylesheet didn't make use of
this anyway (and pre-23.05 versions of the chapters didn't use quote
elements either).
also updates the nixpkgs manual to clarify that option docs support all
extensions (although it doesn't support headings at all, so heading
anchors don't work by extension).
apparently pandoc has changed behavior over the past releases, so the
files are no longer in sync. occasionally this requires edits
to the markdown source to not remove an anchor that was there
before (albeit wth a very questionable id), or where things were simply
being misrendered due to syntax errors.
