On 8 February 2013 12:19, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to use AsciiDoc to process a large document (sysadmin > site documentation). But chapters get run together like sections. > > Is it possible to generate PDFs where each AsciiDoc document > section is rendered starting on a new page, as if it was a chapter? > (Is there some setting for that?) > > I want to have a single AsciiDoc file that can be both: > > a) included in a larger collection, or > > b) published standalone. > > > Background: > > I want to migrate our sysadmin site documentation from DocBook XML to > AsciiDoc. > > I have 267 DocBook XML files, organized into 5 levels: > > set -> book -> book part -> chapter -> section > > or > > set -> book -> book part -> article -> section > > The nifty part is that articles show up in the book but can be > published standalone (great for policies and network diagrams). > > AsciiDoc also offers me 5 levels but there are no chapters: > > title -> section -> section -> section -> section > > I have read the "Combining Separate Documents" in the FAQ > (http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X90) so I know > I could have more section levels. > > I didn't see anything else in the FAQ on processing large documents. > > Situation: > > My trouble is that chapter content gets treated like > section content after converting (by hand) from DocBook > XML to AsciiDoc. (Because there are no chapters in > AsciiDoc, only sections.)
This is wrong. For the book document type, titles are <part>, sect1s are <chapter> and the rest of the sects are <section>. > > DocBook XML chapters start on a new page in PDF output; > AsciiDoc sections don't. > > I would like the PDF of my Book of Everything to have > these files separated (to be chapters). > > I make PDFs from AsciiDoc using a2x with dblatex: > > a2x -v --no-xmllint -f pdf --dblatex-opts "-P doc.toc.show=0 > -P doc.layout=mainmatter -P doc.publisher.show=1 -P > latex.output.revhistory=0 -P doc.section.depth=1 -P > latex.class.options=letterpaper" index.txt You are not using the book document type (--doctype=book). > > I looked at DBLatex XSL options at > http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/sec-params.html but didn't > see anything relating to making each section start on a new page. > > Would appreciate any help or pointers to relevant documentation, please. > > Is this an appropriate use of AsciiDoc? Yes :) Cheers Lex > > Yours truly, > Aleksey > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
