AsciiDoc

It is a text document format for writing short documents, articles, books and UNIX man pages.

AsciiDoc files can be converted to many other formats like HTML, EPUB, man pages and PDF.

AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML and DocBook markups using the asciidoc(1) command.

AsciiDoc is highly configurable: both the AsciiDoc source file syntax and the backend output markups (which can be almost any type of SGML/XML markup) can be customized and extended by the user.

What is new in this release:

• Increased default maximum include depth from 5 to 10.
• Emit warning if maximum include depth is exceeded.
• Suppress repeated console messages.
• Music filter: removed --beams=None option from abc2ly invocation because it is broken on LilyPond 2.14 (Ubuntu 12.04).
• Replaced obsolete <tt> tag with <code> in HTML backends.
• Allow configuration attribute entries to create a new section (previously you could only modify existing sections).
• Documented {wj} (word-joiner) attribute and updated FAQ.

What is new in version 8.6.7:

• Vim syntax highlighter: highlight entity refs in macro arguments.
• Added files with .asciidoc extension to Vim file type detection.
• Added replacement3 substitution to enable ODT whitespace processing.
• Added unbreakable option to XHTML and HTML 5 backends.
• Implemented toc::[] block macro and toc-placement attribute for HTML backends to allow the Table of Contents placement to be set manually by the author.
• Added backend-confdir intrinsic attribute.

What is new in version 8.6.6:

• Plugin commands have been added to the asciidoc(1) --backend option.
• An asciidoc(1) --theme option has been implemented to specify a theme and to manage theme plugins.
• A plugin build command (for creating plugins) added.
• Build, install, list and remove plugin commands are all recognized by asciidoc(1) --backend, --filter and --theme options.

Requirements:

• Python 2.4 or higher