On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 02:00:03 -0600 Dan Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Dan, > I'm chiming in just to let you know that I'm listening. There's still > much to learn, especially from authors. I listen and learn as much as > I talk about AsciiDoc :) it's (always) nice to see you here. ;) > My focus in the last few years has been to accelerate this impact. It's seems there is success in your endeavour. > I've heard from many writers, especially information architects and > companies maintaining large documentation projects, that AsciiDoc is > good, but it can be better. Right. Writing AsciiDoc is more productive (to me) than trying to use LaTeX. Another option would be to use LyX, but I like Asciidoc(tor)'s ability to easily/directly get quality output in HTML/PDF: > The request I've heard more than any other is to create a standard for > AsciiDoc. Time permitting, I have plans to initiate the > standardization process and contribute to it in whatever way I can > (it's hard to know what the future holds). The working title for the > standard is "UniDoc", short for a "universal documentation > (shorthand) language" and to shake the misconception that AsciiDoc > doesn't handle Unicode. This is very important. It's nice to see that projects like static-site-generators are adopting AsciiDoc (besides ubiquitous markdown) as format for generating web content. Yesterday I posted in Hugo mailing list mentioning Jbake (https://github.com/jbake-org/jbake) and it's nice to see that Hugo's main dev is considering to bring AsciiDoc support in next release (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/hugo-discuss/aPCDlpl3e78) and, as you can see, another implementation (in Go language) is important factor in it. ;) > I wholeheartedly agree that DocBook is a great document interchange > format. I just don't think any human should be touching it (at least, > not as part of content authoring). +1 It there wouldn't be AsciiDoc I would never bother to consider or use DocBook. > (I also think that the *way* DocBook is processed is completely > insane. I am not a believer in XSL. I've been down that road. I think > it's a terrible waste of engineering resources. In the past I bought XSLT book, but now wonder where was my intelligence that I was considering doing XSLT programming. :-) Sincerely, Gour -- In this endeavor there is no loss or diminution, and a little advancement on this path can protect one from the most dangerous type of fear. -- 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.
