On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:56:31 +0200 Stéphane Gourichon <[email protected]> wrote:
> I use asciidoc to author documents, reports, including professional, > quotes, invoices etc. Can you share some info about usage of AsciiDoc for quotes/invoices? At, I use some PHP/MySQL web app, but believe there could be something better. > Your use case may be different. I'd use it for writing articles, blog posts, study notes and possibly for book drafts. > After experimenting and discussing on this list I consider direct > asciidoc to HTML a simple but weak path, useful to get started, and > now use asciidoc as **a convenient syntax to author docbook** which I > can render as many formats including HTML. I must say that I'm not so thrilled about DocBook toolchain and always did prefer LaTeX route...however, I understand DocBook is powerful. > When this is clear in one's mind, one no longer asks in asciidoc > group help about downstream topics or reinvent what people have > already worked on for years in the docbook realm. :-) > Let's have each tool do one thing and do it right. Let's have standard > interfaces to ensure interoperability. I agree. > Docbook is such an interface. For this one I'd have to dig a bit into DocBook again. There was time when I was doing writing directly in DocBook, but as Stuart said: "I found I was spending more time fixing syntax errors than I was writing the documentation." Sincerely, Gour -- One who restrains the senses of action but whose mind dwells on sense objects certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
