On 30 September 2015 at 20:05, Jon Leech <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 2:56:18 AM UTC-7, Lex Trotman wrote:
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>> I have to say that I find it easier to lay out Asciidoc tables, for
>> example the first few rows of your reference:
>> ...
>> Of course the results are not ASCII text diagrams, but perfectly
>> usable and understandable.
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> The ASCII text diagram on page 2 of the PDF is what bytefield is
> replacing. The diagrams on page 3 and forward are representative
> of the quality / flexibility I'd like to match in asciidoc.

Ok, I was lazy and didn't read the whole paper :)

Change my last to "... the results are not diagrams tailored for the
specific use-case, but perfectly usable and understandable."

It is unlikely that something with such a specific use-case would be
part of Asciidoc itself, its also a separate package in Latex.  But
thats exactly what filters are for, plugins that can provide specific
layout for blocks of content, there are filters that highlight code
samples, music notation, graphs, diagrams, and even render latex.

You could develop a bitfield filter to interpret a suitable syntax
into (x)html(5) but controlling layout in docbook is probably going to
be harder, it may have to be an image.  You might even be able to have
the filter (mis)use latex with the bitfield package to generate the
rendered output.

Cheers
Lex

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