Hi,
This is the first public announcement of a new project I started to create
an ODF backend for AsciiDoc. For those who don't know AsciiDoc, AsciiDoc
is a lightweight markup language that is designed to map to DocBook
semantics, and as such, ideal for creating consistent documentation,
articles and O'Reilly books ;-)
http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc
Being able to convert from AsciiDoc to ODF (onto other formats through
LibreOffice) is something that always appealed to me, and lead me to
create unoconv for non-interactive conversions, and get
involved with docbook2odf. However XSLT is not something I can introduce
with great confidence at companies as part of a technical documentation
workflow and docbook2odf was not the easiest to maintain.
The ultimate goal is for people to write basic documents in AsciiDoc,
convert them to ODF, PDF or Word documents while applying a style in the
process, without having to launch LibreOffice. However LibreOffice could
be used to visually fine-tune the styling and using it in future
conversions in order to give your documents a common identity
(aka. corporate identity).
Result: no more messing around with XSLT or XSL-FO, and much more options
wrt. styling.
The ODF backend for AsciiDoc is located at:
https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf
and feedback, pull-requests or ideas are very welcome.
PS I am going to give a presentation about unoconv at the LibreOffice
conference in Paris on friday 14/10 afternoon. I would like to also
discuss this project at the conference, but likely one presentation
slot will not be sufficient to discuss both unoconv and asciidoc-odf,
so if you are attending the conference and interested to discuss both
projects we can meet after the unoconv presentation.
PS I have noticed a few strange behaviours related to LibreOffice that I
do not understand and like to share with this list in the meantime.
Kind regards,
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