On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, I've run in to another couple of issues, this time with > conditional attribute references. > > My situation is that I have a bunch of documents that I'm trying to build > with both asciidoc 8.6.6 (Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha) and with 8.5.2 (Ubuntu 10.04). > > > My first issue is this: > > If I put a conditional attribute reference before the document title, it > gets evaluated properly with 8.5.2, but it does not get evaluated with > 8.6.6. If I put it after the document title, it works fine with both. Is > this expected behavior? I've attached a small asciidoc source file that > demonstrates the behavior. I build with "asciidoc -v > early-conditional-attribute.txt" on both versions; with 8.5.2 all attributes > get the expected values, but with 8.6.6 {earlyconditionalattribute} expands > to the empty string.
Yes, because basebackend hasn't been defined at that time. This is a change in the 8.6.2 to allow user definition of the backend (and other stuff) within the header. > > > My second issue is this: > > I guess there's something I don't understand about asciidoc regexes. I've > used regexes for about two decades with other tools (perl, python, grep, > sed, etc, etc), but it's not working as i expect in asciidoc. I've attached > another small asciidoc source file that confuses me. The regex with ".*" at > both the beginning and end of the regex fails to match. All the other > regexes match successfully. I feel like I'm on crazy pills! Any ideas what > I'm doing wrong? Not sure whats the problem here but I can't test it at the moment. Cheers Lex > > > Thanks for your help folks! > > > -- > Sebastian Kuzminsky > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
