MacDown VS Asciidoctor

MacDown 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

MacDown mentions (7)

• Epub rendering with Pandoc

  I write a LOT of documentation in Markdown for $DAYJOB. I normally use Marked2 (not free, but I paid for my license 7-8 years ago) or MacDown (free) to preview them, and to export them to PDF. Both of these programs are specific to macOS, but a web search for "markdown editor" turns up a few dozen others, for other platforms. Most of these will have an "export to PDF" function built into them. Source: 5 months ago

• Good Free Application For Reading `.md` Files On Mac Pro

  MacDown is free, open source and super simple. Has been my go-to Markdown editor for years. Highly recommend. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?

  Macdown: https://macdown.uranusjr.com/ And here's a huge list: https://github.com/mundimark/awesome-markdown-editors. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• High probability of conversion issues from PDF to Epub

  So I convert the PDF to Markdown format. Then I use my Markdown editor of choice, Macdown, to clean up the text and then convert the resulting document into the format that I want. Source: over 1 year ago

• Markdown editor's with a toolbar?

  If you're talking about buttons to help you style your text so you don't have to remember the syntax, then MacDown will have you covered. Source: 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