On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 10:49:05PM +0300, Спицын Андрей wrote: > Hi Marco, > > We have a discussion about markdown, and other markup languages in > bugtracker https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/bugtracker/view.php?id=77
Markdown is a nightmare of dialects... > Asciidoc, markdown and other Lightweight markup language(LML) has advantages > and disadvantages. The advantages you already mentioned is > convertibility into html and into other formats. > Syntax IMHO is a mater of taste. The disadvantages of LML is a continuation > of it advantages, LML has a lack of control of output format. > To produce a good pdf from Asciidoc, you have to fine tune the standard latex > template and entire document, This is past. Asciidoctor-pdf produces beautiful pdf from scratch. No need to convert into docbook or latex anymore. > because Asciidoc and other LMLs use latex to convert into pdf. No Tikz > drawing support. > Sometime a conversion goes wrong, see attached file. > And so on. LMLs produce a much simpler documents even with a latex > support. > > LaTeX has much more power to do with pdf format, and because of that > produce nice looking pdfs, that looks like a real book. > And it's goes closer to some kind of art, see > https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid As already said, this is good for math books, and perhaps even for math book it is not compulsory since now you can just insert a small latex code into asciidoc when you need to render a formula... > > > Anyway when I have some spare time I can try to convert all 600 pages of > > docs in asciidoc to see how it comes out... > > I don't know can I speak for a whole community, but we are welcome any help. > It would be nice to have ability to convert latex manual into asciidoc. Well, lets discuss this when (and _if_) I succeed in doing that! -- Best regards, Marco Ciampa I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. ------------------------ GNU/Linux User #78271 FSFE fellow #364 ------------------------ -- Cin mailing list Cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin