Zam, Best of luck with your ongoing exploration to find an ideal conversion toolchain for your AsciiDoc content! I'm glad you raised the questions that you did because it helps us to assess the tools available in this ecosystem and how they can be better explained, presented, or improved. We do have our own opinions about things, which come through in our replies. But I want to clarify that the only right software is the software that is right for you. (If that's a2x.py, then great!)
If you discover something that makes any of these tools easy to use along the way, I encourage you to share it so that future newcomers can build on your efforts rather than hit the same stumbling blocks. They, in turn, will help others. That's the virtuous cycle of OSS. Best Regards, -Dan On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 7:11 PM 'Zam' via asciidoc <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sure Dan meant no harm and do agree with Lex in that, most certainly, > this is not the right place for questions whose answer demand the > presentation of opinions. I should have phrased differently that second > last question of mine and for that I owe you, all, an apology. I'm sorry. > > All in all, I'm glad I had the chance of chatting with you, guys. It has > been, indeed, a pleasant and very instructive chat. Thank you for having > me, Lex and Dan. > > I will continue tinkering with my Asccidoc.py installation and will sure > try out *xmlto*, *publican* and---you bet it, Lex---*a2x.py* ;-) > > Cheers, > > Zam > > El miércoles, 3 de marzo de 2021 a la(s) 00:15:27 UTC, [email protected] > escribió: > >> I want to go a little further with my correction. I did not intend to >> criticize a2x. It has done an amazing job for a very long time of being a >> DocBook toolchain frontend and hiding much of the complexity of using such >> a powerful and extensible tool. What I was trying to suggest is that if you >> just need a DocBook toolchain wrapper, there are projects like xmlto that >> only do that one thing. That doesn't make them better, but does offer the >> potential to be installable as a standalone tool. You need to decide for >> yourself what works best for you. >> >> If my earlier criticism offended the maintainers of this project in any >> way, I do apologize as that was not my intent. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> -Dan >> >> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021, 16:58 Dan Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> > Lex wrote: >>> > I don't agree with Dan's assessment of a2x, if it works for you its >>> fine to use, old doesn't mean bad, it hasn't changed much because it hasn't >>> needed to. >>> >>> I didn't mean to suggest old is bad. I'm simply suggesting that if >>> you're looking to adopt a new tool, you should evaluate whether there's a >>> more modern option that has kept up with the developments in the DocBook >>> toolchain. What we do know is that a2x hasn't been updated that much. But >>> if it works for someone, and no updates were needed, by all means use it. >>> >>> -Dan >>> >>> -- >>> Dan Allen (he, him, his) | @mojavelinux | >>> https://twitter.com/mojavelinux >>> >> -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/asciidoc/d161b89d-3b38-4566-a6a7-681d49d3e810n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/asciidoc/d161b89d-3b38-4566-a6a7-681d49d3e810n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Dan Allen (he, him, his) | @mojavelinux | https://twitter.com/mojavelinux -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/asciidoc/CAKeHnO4wFtbnf6n_zexOtxOYtEcnp60JLEQwrU-pe47GvuV6GA%40mail.gmail.com.
