On 7 May 2013 07:47, Al Harrington <[email protected]> wrote:

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


Well, the example PDF also has a TOC :)

Cheers
Lex


>
> Thanks!
>
> On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Lex Trotman wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1 May 2013 04:49, Al Harrington <[email protected]> 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?
>>>
>>
>> It looks like the pdf linked was generated by FOP not dblatex, ie:
>>
>> a2x --fop article.txt
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> -al
>>>
>>> On Monday, April 29, 2013 10:23:46 PM UTC-7, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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/**asci**
>>>>> idoc/index.html#_overview_**and_**examples<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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