Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ODF backend for AsciiDoc

Dag,

On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 10:26 -0700, NoOp wrote: 

> 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!

+1, Asciidocs is in the Ubuntu repository.


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Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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