AsciiDoc
Developer(s) | Stuart Rackham |
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Initial release | November 25, 2002 |
Stable release |
8.6.9
/ November 9, 2013 |
Written in | Python |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Documentation generator |
License | GNU General Public License |
Website |
asciidoc |
Initial release | January 30, 2013 |
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Stable release |
1.5.4
/ January 5, 2016 |
Written in | Ruby |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Documentation generator |
License | MIT License |
Website |
asciidoctor |
AsciiDoc is a human-readable document format, semantically equivalent to DocBook XML, but using plain-text mark-up conventions. AsciiDoc documents can be created using any text editor and read “as-is”, or rendered to HTML or any other format supported by a DocBook tool-chain, i.e. PDF, TeX, Unix manpages, e-books, slide presentations, etc.[1]
History
AsciiDoc was created in 2002 by Stuart Rackham who published tools (‘asciidoc’ and ‘a2x’), written in the Python programming language to convert plain-text, ‘human readable’ files to commonly used published document formats.[1]
A Ruby implementation called ‘Asciidoctor’, released in 2013, is in use by GitHub[2] and also provides a gateway to AsciiDoc use in the Java ecosystem.
Some of O'Reilly Media's books and e-books are authored using AsciiDoc mark-up.[3]
Most of the Git documentation is written in AsciiDoc.[4]
Example
The following shows text using AsciiDoc mark-up, and a rendering similar to that produced by an AsciiDoc processor:
Asciidoc source text |
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= My Article
*J. Smith*
http://wikipedia.org[Wikipedia] is an
on-line encyclopaedia, available in
English and many other languages.
== Software
You can install 'package-name' using
the +gem+ command:
gem install package-name
== Hardware
Metals commonly used include:
* copper
* tin
* lead
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HTML-rendered result |
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J. Smith Wikipedia is an on-line encyclopaedia, available in English and many other languages. You can install package-name using the gem install package-name Metals commonly used include:
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See also
References
- 1 2 "AsciiDoc".
- ↑ "AsciiDoc, powered by Asciidoctor, returns to GitHub and its 5+ million repositories".
- ↑ "AsciiDoc 101 (chapter 4 of Getting Started with Atlas)". Author Welcome Kit. O'Reilly Media. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ↑ "Git wiki". Git SCM.
External links
- Official website
- Asciidoc “cheat-sheet” reference guide
- MPLW - Matplotlib charting filter for AsciiDoc
- RTextDoc. Editor with AsciiDoc support.
- AsciidocToGo. Frontend to convert AsciiDoc txt files