Hello, I've been using asciidoc for several projects of mine and up until now I didn't actually need to do any kind of custom configuration: everything works as expected and I'm happy with the defaults, which is one of the things I really like about it.
However I recently had the idea of trying to use asciidoc in order to produce a document that closely resembles an existing template. This changes things significantly since I need to tweak things quite a bit more, since I'm aiming at emulating an existing document (regadless of the merits of deficiencies of it). Initially I was a bit lost since for a neophyte there multiple ways to customise the process: using asciidoc configuration files, using the specific backend configuration methods, and within the last either using xsl or other methods (e.g. editing the sty in dblatex). At this stage I have things running more or less smoothly, using a mix of asciidoc customisations in order to directly change the produced docbook xml and dblatex customisations to be able to replicate the exact look of the document I'm emulating. Having said all this, I have some doubts: * Default table settings: I've read in the chapter that one can change the default table settings by changing the [tabledef-*] and [tabletags- *]. I've looked at it and I was left unsure if this applies to what I want: I'm using table options like grid=row and frame=topbot, and I would like for this to be the default (the only reason being providing a source document less cluttered with meta options). Is this possible? * Custom section blocks: the document I'm trying to replicate has a strict document history section, filled with different tables (not only revision, but also distribution, approval list, etc). I've got this working by using a method that I found in this group, namely the overloading of "legalblock": I disable the "internal" revision history and use "regular" tables to provide the information, and by using the legalblock this appear before the TOC as expected. This method uses "specialsections", based on the title of the section. I've read in the documentation that this use is considered deprecated due to several issues (even if the way I'm using them avoid several of them, since I'm using something like "== %% <title" to mark those sections, and using the %% has the identifier). Is it possible to add new sections, with new delimiters? I've tried to add to [titles] but it doesn't seem to work. BTW, I think that the legalblock approach can also be done using something like [preface], and then altering the dblatex settings to put that section before the TOC, I'm currently investigating this. Best regards, Frederico -- 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.
