Okay, Being a n00b to asciidoc, I have to agree with Giles, and follow up with a few questions / comments.
1. Question: is there a collection of templates / extensions for other document types? I look at LaTeX and see that there are things for many different academic and professional style documents, and even extensions for producing presentations, etc. Has anyone started working on expanding the available templates? 2. Question: what toolchain(s) do I really need to understand for using asciidoc? I have been struggling through understanding various parts of the system, and using a2x -v to see what is being invoked, but that is really not giving me a complete overview of how things are working, and what knowledge I need to build to understand how the processing is actually working. 3. Comment: I'm struggling working with the documentation. While it is clear in the topics it discusses, I am really looking for a pair of documents. The first would be something that gives me a more procedural structured approach to each of the major document classes: a section / part for articles, then a section / part for books, then maybe an advanced multi-file book section / part. A seperate document would get into the complete features / technical nitty-gritty for the tool chain, and each of the templates, etc.I know there are comments in the current documentation that it needs to be split up, is there any work being done on this? If I felt I was understanding asciidoc better, I would offer to help with this. Anyway, I would appreciate assistance as a n00b with asciidoc, but not as a computer n00b (I'm a unix/linux server administrator, and someone who conceptually understands SGML/LaTeX, but has always used a GUI front-end for them, and am now trying to break away and get myself back into a preferred methodology for working with everything from documents to shell scripts and source code...) George On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Giles <[email protected]> wrote: > Blimey! is what I want to do so specialised that it doesn't warrant a > > --doctype pamphlet > > feature? > > Its a shame that asciidoc assumes that I am writing a book, but then > again I suppose that is what it was designed for. > > On Mar 19, 8:53 pm, Mark Fernandes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Giles <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I was wondering is it possible to generate a 1 page pdf file from my >> >> curriculum vitae located here: >> [....] >> >> I tried to use a2x , but I don't want to generate a cover page, or >> >> Table of Contents >> >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Cameron Eagans <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Why not just print to PDF from the one that's generated by a2x? You >> > can just selectively include pages that way. >> >> How much time have you got? :) >> >> The quickest way I suggest is to do as Cameron says and only print the >> pages you want. Another option is to use pdftk to cut out pages you >> do not want electronically and then print the ones that remain. >> >> http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ >> >> Mind you, either printing, or electronic page removal do not change >> the page numbers (should you need to have page numbers included), so >> page numbers are always wrong and so on. Also the title page may not >> appear they way you want it to. >> >> Another option is to convert the txt to docbook and open the docbook >> XML file in a word processor like OpenOffice. This eases some of the >> transition pain caused by the other approaches but this solution, too, >> can be unwieldy in other aspects like why should one need to use a >> word processor in the first place. >> >> A final solution that I can recommend is to convert the txt file to >> tex (LaTeX) and then apply a style file to get the PDF the way you >> want it to display. The trouble with this approach is now you are left >> fiddling with LaTeX and TeX, which can consume copious amounts of your >> time. >> >> A solution that I have not explored is to fiddle around with FOP >> settings to display the page the way you want to. I am not aware of >> how to do that so I cannot help you much there, hopefully someone else >> will be able to fill in those gaps for you. >> >> Good Luck, you are going to need it. :) >> >> Mark. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. > > -- --- Faster moments spent spread tales of change within the sound... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
