discuss: Suggestion: AsciiDoc as a new format for submissions
Subject:
Re: Suggestion: AsciiDoc as a new format for submissions
From:
"Ferg / LDP" ####@####.####
Date:
27 Apr 2004 15:29:54 -0000
Message-Id: <20040427152954.218B837D60@mail01.powweb.com>
> AsciiDoc is a GPLed formating system written in Python by Stuart
> Rackham. It lives at http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/ .
> From the docs:
>
> "AsciiDoc is a plain text human readable/writable document format that can be
> translated directly to DocBook and HTML using the asciidoc(1) command.
Has anyone tried running an asciidoc "HOWTO"-type document thru the
command to generate DocBook? I'd be interested in seeing the Docbook
markup, esp. wrt:
- container elements; hierarchy - article or book, sections/chapters?
- meta-data ({article,book}info - author/revhistory/abstract/pubdate)
all the important stuff.
If it can do a decent job (like wikitext did, which no one adopted
but we did accept!), then I think we'd be open to such submissions.
What I don't want to run into is garbage DocBook being generated which
in turn produces error-filled documents (which I would then need to
correct as part of the publishing process).
regards
--
Greg Ferguson / LDP volunteer
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