Asciidoctor VS DocBook

Asciidoctor Reviews

1. Elisa    

   Technical Writer at Self | about 2 years ago
   Professional output from open source

   If you are looking for an open documentation solution ny which you can implement single sourcing while integrating with a complex build process then this is a great solution.

   👍 Pros:    Easy integration|Easy to use

DocBook Reviews

Asciidoctor mentions (24)

• AsciidocFX: The Asciidoc Editor for documentation and authoring

  AsciidocFX, is an open-source, cross-platform editor that provides an exceptional user experience and a comprehensive set of features for working with Asciidoc files. Though Asciidoctor provides these capabilities, not everyone will be comfortable enough to work in the commandline or shell setting that's where AsciidocFX comes to the rescue. Let's explore some of the key capabilities that make AsciidocFX stand out. - Source: dev.to / 2 days ago

• I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)

  You have also AsciiDoctor ( https://asciidoctor.org/ ) which is alive and well. I am using it for technical CS documentation internally, but only for single page documents. I did not try to deploy their whole multi-document setup called Antora ( https://antora.org/ ). - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Documentation generators and custom syntax highlighting

  I use Asciidoctor, highlightjs, a custom highlight.js language definition and that bash script:. Source: almost 1 year ago

• I wish Asciidoc was more popular

  In fact, also this claim is wrong, because there are three :D 1. https://asciidoctor.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText - a tale of docs-as-code

  Asciidoctor is a Ruby-based text processor for parsing AsciiDoc into a document model and converting it to HTML5, PDF, EPUB3, and other formats. Built-in converters for HTML5, DocBook5, and man pages are available in Asciidoctor. Asciidoctor has an out-of-the-box default stylesheet and built-in integrations for MathJax (display beautiful math in your browser), highlight.js, Rouge, and Pygments (syntax... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

DocBook mentions (1)

• Ask HN: LaTeX is great. Has anyone tried to build something better?

  The two that come to mind are ConTeXt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConTeXt (official: https://contextgarden.net) and DocBook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook (official: https://docbook.org). There are others, but they're less-serious and often not general purpose. Then there's the entire class of Markdown-based solutions (I personally wouldn't attempt academic work with any of those). The other typesetting... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago