FYI - the article.txt is the example here: 
 http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/article.txt

On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:49:05 AM UTC-7, Al Harrington wrote:
>
> The question is.. what should the command be to generate a the sample PDF 
> file from that sample AsciiDoc template?  If you take the sample article 
> text file and run asciidoc article.txt it produces the HTML just fine.  If 
> you run the following it produces a "book" format, not the nice article 
> format linked in the example:
>
> a2x --doctype-article -f pdf article.txt
>
> Should I be using a different command?  Or is there some option (i.e. 
> maybe --asciidoc-opts) that I need to make it look like the example article 
> PDF?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -al
>
> On Monday, April 29, 2013 10:23:46 PM UTC-7, Lex Trotman wrote:
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>>
>>
>>
>> On 30 April 2013 14:54, Al Harrington <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm new to asciidoc and am trying to generate a PDF as shown in the 
>>> Examples and Overview (
>>> http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/index.html#_overview_and_examples) 
>>> section.  This is the example:  The same AsciiDoc article 
>>> template<http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/article.txt> produced 
>>> this HTML file <http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/article.html> and 
>>> this PDF file <http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/article.pdf> via 
>>> DocBook markup generated by AsciiDoc.
>>>
>>> I've created a simple test file (on Ubuntu) and am able to generate an 
>>> html document (using asciidoc command line) that looks like the example. 
>>>  But when I try to use a2x to generate a PDF file it ends up being 
>>> formatted like a book.  I've tried the doctype option to say article, but 
>>> that didn't help.  Can someone tell me the correct commands to take my text 
>>> file (like the article template above) and make a PDF (again, like the 
>>> example above)?
>>>
>>
>> Not enough info, stick the test file on a pastebin and let us know the 
>> commands you ran, what docbook toolchain you are using, and the version of 
>> asciidoc.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>  
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> -al
>>>
>>> p.s. I actually used to create LaTeX documents WAY back in the day... 
>>>  I'm starting to have flashbacks to the late 80's...  :)
>>>
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