AsciiDoc
| Developer(s) | Stuart Rackham |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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.
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.
A Ruby implementation called ‘Asciidoctor’, released in 2013, is in use by GitHub 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.
Most of the Git documentation is written in AsciiDoc.
The following shows text using AsciiDoc mark-up, and a rendering similar to that produced by an AsciiDoc processor:
J. Smith
is an on-line encyclopaedia, available in English and many other languages.
You can install package-name using the gem command:
Metals commonly used include:
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Wikipedia