On 23 May 2011 10:42, Oleksandr Lavrushchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 23 May 2011 09:53, Oleksandr Lavrushchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> but IMHO very useful add-on for build documentation with asciidoc. >>> https://gitorious.org/doc-building-system > >> I don't understand what this adds, it seems to be just a replacement for a2x? > Well, maybe you have rationale. In many ways - yes. But in my personal > opinion, my (first and for now single) big work with asciidoc > (~170pages pdf for my course) , become easier after i move building of > document to doc-building-system, at beginning i used plain a2x+make. > > There are some differences like document maps in yaml, support from > document profiles, etc.
This isn't described that I can find, doesn't appear in the diagram on the blog. > > Anyway, this little bit hard for me to explain why it's easier for me, > but it is. Well no wonder I have trouble understanding what it adds, if a happy user can't describe the benefits :-) > > And of course, I don't push anyone to use it if it's not fit well for your > work. > Just it's asciidoc-based tool, so I mention it. I'm not criticising it, just trying to understand it, I don't know if it fits since I don't understand what it does, but I'm always on the lookout for ways of making life easier. And Stuart would need to know what it is to describe it if he links to it. The README, the English docs in Russian? and the google translation of that say the same thing, and it just sounds like a2x to me. >From your next post One thing that i don't like in it, it's AFAIK thay it's tight coupled to *.page extension of asciidoc files :). What is the .page extension? Cheers Lex -- 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.
