DocBook VS Asciidoctor

DocBook Reviews

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 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

Asciidoctor mentions (23)

• 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: 12 months 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

• Docs as code vs a tool that can work with .md and xml?

  If you're looking at AsciiDoc, you'll want to look at Asciidoctor: https://asciidoctor.org/. Source: over 1 year ago