![]() If you’re going to have a level one or a heading one within your document, you do two equal signs heading ,or level two, three equal signs and so on. So for your title of your document you just have one equal sign. So the way in which you write content in AsciiDoc is that you use some formatting codes to make certain elements headings or bulleted lists or numbered listsĪnd the formatting is a pretty simple and straightforward way of writing. These two for the Macintosh, which gives you the option of previewing what your content will look like when it’s converted to be a PDF, or converted to be a web page, and so on, ![]() There are some dedicated authoring tools, such as one that we’ll look at called AsciiDocFX, and another one called Brackets. write your documentation as you’re writing your code, and hit Save. If you are a developer and you’re using something like Atom or SublimeText, you can just write to open up a new tab. So to use AsciiDoc, you can write content in any text editor that you like. It’s based on an XML standard, and there’s just one version of AsciiDoc, and it has a lot of features within it. So that causes some challenges, in that the way in which you write your Markdown file might not be supported by a place where you want those pages to appear.Īnd also, it still might not have all of the features and functionality that you would like it to have. So rather than there being one generally accepted standard for what Markdown is, there’s a number of different versions and flavors some of which are supported by some tools or platforms. Markdown was probably the first lightweight markup language around, and it began with a very limited set of features, and as it grew in popularity, people wanted it to do more and more.Īnd as a result, there’s been an introduction of new versions of Markdown with extra features. So AsciiDoc is an alternative to Markdown. So what this means is, if you’re copying and pasting content from one document to the next, you don’t have some of the issues that you get with word where the formatting comes with it and all your bulleted lists of your fonts start to suddenly go out of kilter. Like with web pages, or content for that type of thing, is stored as a cascading style sheet file, the same type of thing happens with a lightweight markup language. So this means it’s a lot quicker and faster than launching Word and waiting for Word to kick off.Īnd with the lightweight markup languages, the way it looks, the look and feel, the formatting, the colours, and size of the headings and so forth, are stored separately. ADOC, and you’ve just saved your AsciiDoc file. In this situation for AsciiDoc, that’s with the extension. Lightweight markup language are different from word processors like Microsoft Word in that you can just open up a text file, write content for your document, using a particular formatting set of standards for doing things like headings and lists, and just save it with extension that these lightweight markup languages use. So it’s similar to something called Markdown if you’ve ever heard of that. We’ve just put together a little presentation recording of an experiment we’ve done to look at something called AsciiDoc, and see how it could be used to make the way in which proposals and reports could be done in a faster more efficient way. ![]() ![]() This video is part of our Advanced Technical Communication training course bundle. An example of how you could use the AsciiDoc lightweight markup language to write reports and proposals more efficiently. ![]()
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