I have been using Asciidoctor for for some years now, for taking notes, making summaries of programming, ideas, insights, etc. and I love it. I love the TOC with links, the default HTML/CSS theme, etc. Too many things I like about Asciidoctor to list here, actually. (I am even attempting to write a vim plugin do some handling of todo lists more or less following the way Org-mode works when handling "checkboxes".)
It so happens that I recently started using Zim Desktop Wiki. Two things I most like about Zim is the "searchability" and the tree structure of the files in the wiki as well as the table of contents for each file that happen to be viewing/editing. Those features make Zim extremely navigable (and easily navigable). <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-APGR1aJjROo/WwSGp1zyNJI/AAAAAAAAC4g/yukzZ70hdx8EFpMkb4YCy5ui4LBAPiNggCLcBGAs/s1600/zim-navigability.png> I don't like its Dokuwiki syntax though for a few reasons that I don't think would matter matter here. And with that, came the idea of making a Zim Wiki clone using Asciidoctor as the underlying markup. That means files would not only be useful for this Wiki of mine, but would also be ready to use in external places, like README files in Github or Gitlab, for blogging with Jekyll and whatnot and perhaps other things. One goal would be to implement the _in place_, wysiwyg style of editing like Zim does. Easier said than done :) For me at least, editing text in such a manner (and resorting to the source only on some specific cases) lessens cognitive burden during the writing. Also, I tried live previews, epiphany's automatic reload, etc. and although they help, it is a bit of a nuisance having to switch back and forth between windows or even finding what I just wrote in source code on the split pane of Atom, for instance. It is still a bit burdensome to me. And then, why did nobody (to my knowledge) have done something like this _in place_ editing for Asciidoctor yet? Perhaps it is next to impossible? If I even attempted such a thing, I would perhaps use Electron and Asciidoctor.js. I don't believe I would succeed, but would like to hear some commentary about this. Thanks in advance. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
