On 27/03/12 11:38, Lex Trotman wrote:
On 27 March 2012 05:56, Gour<[email protected]>  wrote:
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:40:29 +1100
Lex Trotman<[email protected]>  wrote:

Then if you like it add to it, if you think the documentation can be
improved do it, or whatever help you can give.

I forgot to mention in my previous email that one would like to see
concrete example in the docs instead of this note: "Text attributes are
not applicable to PDF or HTML 4 outputs."
(http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X51)

Yes, the manual is technically wrong, it should say "The text
attribute formatting is not defined *by default* for PDF toolchains,
however most toolchains can be configured to do so.".  Simply saying
it doesn't work is too harsh.

Thanks Lex, fixed:
https://code.google.com/p/asciidoc/source/detail?r=beb1acc552ce704305af1e8805eb9e3f8a15d969


Cheers, Stuart

And when it works for you we can add a
FAQ showing how you did it.

Asciidoc is used by many commercial organisations, who don't highlight
the fact, but one that does is O'Rielly (the publishers of slim
pamphlets on computing topics :) who recently open sourced a tool they
used to reverse engineer Asciidoc from docbook.

As for your worries about the survival of Asciidoc note that its
public release is 10 years old this year.

@Stuart, maybe the Python 3 port should be version 10 to celebrate?

Hopefully by years end. I've been experimenting with a Python 3 port -- hence the thread on my needing to

Cheers
Lex


pointing out how to achieve the same result with PDF&  HTML outputs.


Sincerely,
Gour

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