The CMS seems even harder to use. I think Remko uses Asciidoc for his
picocli site.

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 18:55, Ralph Goers <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The alternative would be to not use Maven at all to build the web site, or
> at least not the majority of the site. It is possible we could use it to
> create the javadoc and a few other things, but there are other alternatives
> for many of the site reports.  Theoretically, we could just have the whole
> site managed by the ASF CMS at https://cms.apache.org/logging/ <
> https://cms.apache.org/logging/>, although I am not a fan of that at all.
>
> Ralph
>
> > On Apr 29, 2019, at 1:53 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I haven't exactly seen a better alternative to maven-site-plugin for
> maven.
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 15:36, Ralph Goers <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Gary, if you want to contribute patches for AsciiDoctor go for it. I
> simply don’t have time. They have basically admitted that when generating
> the body AsciiDoctor ignores the Maven Site theme, which is the root of the
> problem. I’m not even sure that their proposed solution of using an
> AsciiDoctor extension would work since the site plugin uses Doxia which, as
> I understand it, is requires Doxia modules to provide unrendered data to it
> so that all the HTML is really being generated by Doxia.
> >>
> >> At this point I am convinced we have to switch back to Markdown or xdoc
> where Markdown doesn’t work. Either that or we abandon the site plugin to
> generate the Log4j web site.
> >>
> >> Ralph
> >>
> >>> On Apr 29, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Based on the reply to my comment I just saw on the github page for the
> >>> issue, it seems like the developer is willing to help, we just need to
> >>> provide PRs or a description of what we'd like to change...
> >>>
> >>> Gary
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 12:48 PM Ralph Goers <
> [email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> The issue isn’t marked as fixed.  The problem I am having is that
> tables
> >>>> are rendered without borders. This is because asciidoc doesn’t
> include its
> >>>> css file when building the site because the “normal” asciidoc css
> would
> >>>> break the site. Asciidoc generates tables with css class names to
> generate
> >>>> the borders and grids. According to the Jira issue other markup has
> the
> >>>> same issue.
> >>>>
> >>>> Ralph
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Apr 29, 2019, at 8:50 AM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I had converted them to asciidoc a while back because it provided
> more
> >>>>> syntactical features than markdown. Many of the files I converted
> >>>>> weren't markdown but xdoc.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Also, there was a new asciidoctor release just the other day. Unsure
> >>>>> if it's related.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 10:34, Ralph Goers <
> [email protected]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The master branch was converted to use AsciiDoctor. To be honest, I
> >>>> don’t remember why. But after trying to create a new page with it I
> >>>> discovered that AsciiDoctor simply doesn’t work properly with the
> Maven
> >>>> Site Plugin. See
> >>>> https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-maven-plugin/issues/166 <
> >>>> https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-maven-plugin/issues/166>.
> As
> >>>> such I believe the site documents in Master need to be converted back
> to
> >>>> Markdown.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Ralph
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
> >
>
> --
Matt Sicker <[email protected]>

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