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

[Rajiv Gunja]

WOW! The syntax looks very similar to wordperfect on DOS, which was crushed
by windows 3.1 and MS wordpad and MS office.

I remember when the best way to create documents 25+ years ago was Tex and
LaTex.

It seems like we are coming to a full circle here. I will def try to attend
this Months meet. It has been too long since I came to CALUG.


-GG

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Bryan Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:

> 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:
> >>
> >> Greetings Everyone,
> >>
> >> Please join us April 13th for a presentation on Asciidoc and
> >> Asciidoctor. ...
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > -- Berend Tober
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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