First of all thanks for this discussion list and thanks for the excellent tool asciidoc.
1. I would like to know if there is an easy way to automatically format paragraphs so that when printed in a pdf they are like a traditional book or report format. For example you would have the first line indented by about 4-5 spaces, and there would be no extra space or lines inbetween paragraphs. Currently, I seem to get what I consider traditional webpage style paragraphs in html and pdfs generated from docbook. For example, the first line is not indented and there is one line of space between each paragraph. I like that setting for when I use asciidoc to create my website pages, but when I'm using it to write reports it would be nice to have a different type of formating. 2. I've been experimenting and haven't found the right combination. I would like to have a numbered list (like when you are writing a quiz with numbered questions) then after or before certain numbered questions I would like to be able to insert a box with different material like a quote that the student would have to read and then respond to in the next question or material helps that are used to help answer the previous question. Is there a way to stop the numbered list, insert a box or paragraph of material, and then pick up the numbered list again? 3. Finally, I may be having difficulty because of using 8.1 on some machines and 7.1 on others. To make a text italics does this not work under 7.1.0 when you use the "_" character? 4. If I have a quote which quotes someone else normally that is written using a " character at the start of the quotation, and then a ' character at the beginning of the interior quote, then another ' and a final " to end the whole quote. This seems to mess up asciidoc in the conversion. Is there a way to do quotes within quotes or do I have to use special characters to quote text properly? I have read the manual, but I don't quite understand the above issues from the manual pages. Thank you for any help you could offer. I have been encouraging my LUG members to consider using asciidoc for note taking and other tasks so that they can take advantage of plain text editors. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________________________Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php _______________________________________________ Asciidoc-discuss mailing list Asciidoc-discuss@metaperl.com http://metaperl.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asciidoc-discuss