Definitely closer...  it generated a TOC which the HTML doesn't have, but 
that's not a huge deal.

Thanks!

On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Lex Trotman wrote:
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> On 1 May 2013 04:49, Al Harrington <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> a2x --doctype-article -f pdf article.txt
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>> 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?
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> It looks like the pdf linked was generated by FOP not dblatex, ie:
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> a2x --fop article.txt
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> Cheers
> Lex
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>> Thanks.
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>> -al
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>> 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:
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>>>> Hello,
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>>>> 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<http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/index.html#_overview_and_examples>)
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>>>> 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)?
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>>> 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.
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>>> Cheers
>>> Lex
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>>>> 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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