[CALUG] April 13 Meeting Announcement -- Intorduction to Asciidoc(tor)

[Bryan Smith]

Two big thumbs up for AsciiDoc[tor].  It's the easiest way to do
DocBook XML, without having to do XML markup type tagging.  I.e., if
you've done basic Wiki markup, it's cake.  It then virtually
translates 1->1 to DocBook XML.

But AsciiDoc can also directly publish as well.  I have simple
stylesheet I use for both the HTML ("Article") and Slidy
("Slideshow").

For anything more advanced, again, I translate AsciiDoc to DocBook
XML, and then use the wealth of toolchains out there for it.  E.g.,
Fedora/Red Hat Publican.  A lot of people are also using it on Ubuntu
for formal, multi-publication (HTML, PDF, ePub, Mobi, etc...) out
there too. [1]

-- bjs

[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+package/publican


On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Berend Tober <btober at computer.org> wrote:
> Chuck Frain wrote:
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>> Greetings Everyone,
>>
>> Please join us April 13th for a presentation on Asciidoc and
>> Asciidoctor. ...
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>> I will be giving an introductory talk about the Asciidoc language and
>> the Asciidoctor backend. The focus of the talk will be centered around
>> using Asciidoc for writing technical documentation, but the concepts can
>> be used for various forms of writing. I'll be going over the basic
>> concepts of writing in the markup language, some syntax examples, tips,
>> and pointers to help you get started. I'll also show some examples of
>> existing documents.
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> Sounds like a cool talk. As an FYI, FWIW, or example or whatever, any of you
> that attended my Fairwinds talk (http://calug.org/meetings.html) at CALUG
> last September saw an example of Asciidoc in action. That presentation
> slideshow was prepared using Asciidoc and the Slidy
> (http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/slidy.html) backend.
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> -- Berend Tober
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