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Matt Sicker commented on LOG4J2-1802:
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Ok, seems like AsciiDoc macros are not what I was expecting. They're not really
for dynamic things like some of the velocity macros I was using in the
{{maven-dependencies.md.vm}} template. There is [an open
issue|https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-maven-plugin/issues/299] to
add Velocity support to the AsciiDoc plugin when used like this. For now, I'll
leave this file in markdown.
> Convert documentation into AsciiDoc
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> Key: LOG4J2-1802
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1802
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Documentation
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Matt Sicker
> Assignee: Matt Sicker
> Priority: Major
>
> The xdoc system currently in place is difficult to use correctly (it expects
> proper XHTML, no block level elements inside inline level elements, the usual
> pedantry from an XHTML/XML validator) and is needlessly verbose for writing
> documentation.
> After experimenting with Markdown as an alternative to xdoc, it has not been
> powerful enough for our uses. AsciiDoc, however, does offer more features
> useful here without extending the markdown processor itself. This will also
> help unify documentation formats used in other Log4j projects.
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