[libreoffice-users] Re: ODF backend for AsciiDoc

On 10/01/2011 04:56 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is the first public announcement of a new project I started to create 
> an ODF backend for AsciiDoc. For those who don't know AsciiDoc, AsciiDoc 
> is a lightweight markup language that is designed to map to DocBook 
> semantics, and as such, ideal for creating consistent documentation, 
> articles and O'Reilly books ;-)
>
>      http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc
>
> Being able to convert from AsciiDoc to ODF (onto other formats through 
> LibreOffice) is something that always appealed to me, and lead me to 
> create unoconv for non-interactive conversions, and get 
> involved with docbook2odf. However XSLT is not something I can introduce 
> with great confidence at companies as part of a technical documentation 
> workflow and docbook2odf was not the easiest to maintain.
>
> The ultimate goal is for people to write basic documents in AsciiDoc, 
> convert them to ODF, PDF or Word documents while applying a style in the 
> process, without having to launch LibreOffice. However LibreOffice could 
> be used to visually fine-tune the styling and using it in future 
> conversions in order to give your documents a common identity 
> (aka. corporate identity).
>
> Result: no more messing around with XSLT or XSL-FO, and much more options 
> wrt. styling.
>
> The ODF backend for AsciiDoc is located at:
>
>      https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf
>
> and feedback, pull-requests or ideas are very welcome.
...

Thanks Dag!


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