Also, the asciidoctor project has great documentation coming with it
(I haven't been able to find any documentation regarding the gdoc
format).

Martijn

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Martijn Dashorst
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Asciidoctor has many build options, including a maven plugin [1].
>
> The default styling of asciidoctor is much more pleasing to the eye.
> The momentum for fixing issues and improving the output format is
> great, I rather use living technology than dead technology, and
> getting fixes for asciidoctor format on github is easy, as it is
> supported out of the box in the editors on github.
>
> Martijn
>
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Tobias Soloschenko
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would also recommend to stay at gdoc. I also evaluated AsciiDoctor and 
>> there are a lot of formatting and exporting issues to be solved and 
>> currently (as Martin said already) the process is rather simple to update 
>> the documentation and it is well integrated in the build process.
>>
>> If there aren't any big issues with gdoc it would be wasted time to migrate 
>> it to ascii doc.
>>
>> kind regards
>>
>> Tobias
>>
>>> Am 26.05.2015 um 14:18 schrieb Martin Grigorov <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I remember an earlier discussion about this change.
>>> Can you please list what are the benefits?
>>> One thing I remember is that GDoc is deprecated and Grails community won't
>>> develop it anymore.
>>> But the current version seems to work pretty well (Grails 2.4). It is well
>>> integrated with our Maven build too.
>>>
>>> For Apache Isis Dan Haywood had to implement some extra Ruby scripts to
>>> improve something. I don't quite follow his work on this, but such custom
>>> Ruby scripts bother me a bit because I'm not sure how easy this will be
>>> integrated with Maven and Apache CI servers.
>>>
>>> Martin Grigorov
>>> Wicket Training and Consulting
>>> https://twitter.com/mtgrigorov
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Martijn Dashorst <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> At my company we have the option of hiring a temp during the summer
>>>> holidays, and one of the things I'd like the temp to do is a migration
>>>> of our user manual from GDoc format to ASCIIdoctor.
>>>>
>>>> This is of course, if you would be willing to accept such a format
>>>> change, and if the temp is willing to perform the task.
>>>>
>>>> This would probably be a search/replace of tags. I don't know how much
>>>> work it would entail, but it is not trivial considering the size of
>>>> the manual.
>>>>
>>>> The temp could probably start soon, and I'd be mentoring this work
>>>> (but you are welcome to mentor as well if you want)
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> Martijn
>>>>
>
>
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