Hi all, I've been enjoying using AsciiDoc for the user-documentation of Freecell Solver ( http://fc-solve.berlios.de/ ). I've picked up AsciiDoc so I can convert the fc-sovle documentation with relative ease to DocBook/XML (which is a relatively rare feature among all lightweight markup languages), and it worked nicely. Its AsciiDocs are in English, though now a contributor has begun translating them to Dutch.
In any case, I've written or started to write some stories/novellas/novels and some screenplays in these dedicated lightweight markup languages which I've implemented that convert them to a custom XML format and from it to DocBook and/or XHTML: * http://freshmeat.net/projects/xml-grammar-fiction (A known issue with the screenplays is that their output format is a popular one among some Internet screenplays I've seen an not the one enforced by Holywood and other film studios.) I've been thinking of using AsciiDoc at least instead of the -Fiction part, but I see two possible issues: 1. Some of my stories are in Hebrew and I need good support for bidirectional scripts. The words "hebrew", "arabic", "direction", "bidi", "rtl", "ltr", etc. do not appear in the AsciiDoc documentation even once, so I don't know if it's possible there. If you believe it is, let me know. I suppose AsciiDoc supports Unicode and I can insert the special unicode bidirectional characters (e.g: LRM, RLM, POP, etc.). However, all of these should be mentioned somewhere in the documentation. 2. I believe DocBook 5.x has better Bidi and Right-to-left languages support than DocBook 4.x, but AsciiDoc does not appear to support it. Will a patch that adds support for DocBook 5.x (or replaces the DocBook 4.x support with it - it's your call) will be accepted? ---------------- That put aside, I've been playing with the idea of adding more "artsy" tags to DocBook/5.x to allow for writing fiction and stories with ease using it. I've already written the novella http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/human-hacking/ using DocBook/XML and also made the original DocBook available, but trying to use DocBook/XML for screenplays failed spectacularly. But it is not directly related to the point of my suggestions for the improvement of AsciiDoc. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What does "Zionism" mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism Chuck Norris can make the statement "This statement is false" a true one. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- 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.
