Re: [RFC] A first shot at asciidoc-based formatted docs

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Jonathan Corbet <corbet <at> lwn.net> writes:

> 
> So here is a proof-of-concept series showing how a fully asciidoc-based
> toolchain might work.  Lots of hackery here, this isn't meant to be applied
> to anything at this point, but it's a good start.  What this series has is:

<Gmane snip>

> I'm sure there's a thousand details to deal with, and there is the issue of
> the other output formats.  asciidoctor claims to be able to create man
> pages, but I've not tried that yet; neither tool will do PDF.  Maybe we
> could rely on pandoc to do that.  Otherwise, getting to asciidoc to XML is
> straightforward, so it should be possible to use xmlto as is done now.
> 
> It's all in the doc/asciidoc branch of git://git.lwn.net/linux.git if
> anybody wants to mess with it.
> 
> Comments?

On the topic of PDF output, AsciiDoctor has a gem that adds PDF output support:

http://asciidoctor.org/docs/convert-asciidoc-to-pdf/

And the a2x wrapper from the original Asciidoc project can output pdf using
either dblatex or (used in the examples) FOP:

http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/publishing-ebooks-with-asciidoc.html

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