On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Gour <g...@atmarama.net> wrote: > >> https://github.com/srackham/asciidoc-fossil-backend which says: >> "https://github.com/srackham/asciidoc-fossil-backend"; >> > > Sorry, i missed that part. i'm glad to see someone gets some use out of > the wiki CLI commands (IIRC those were my first contributions to Fossil). > > You're very generous, but let's wait a bit if there is some more interest >> to >> integrate/use Asciidoc(tor) with Fossil by using Asciidoctor.js. >> > > Just let me know. > > >> > If indeed it does support that, then we can plug asciidoc in with little >> > work. i _know_ somewhere i have an example which dispatches to a >> different >> > renderer based on file type, but that might have been in a different >> source >> > tree (i can't see to find an example of it in this one). >> >> That would be really cool... > > > _Somewhere_ (in a fossil repo, nonetheless) i've got an example of it, > possibly in another source tree. It can be done, i just don't know if it's > in that particular tree or not. i explicitly remember adding renderers for > shell code and plain text at one point. > > >> the more I play with Asciidoc I see it's really >> capable even to the extent of writing books using it. (I read somewhere >> that >> these days it's possible for author writing book in AsciiDoc and submit >> it to >> O'Reilly.) So, rich markup + Fossil for keeping it under DVCS sounds as >> great >> combo for writers, isn't it? >> > > Indeed. It's called LaTeX ;). > I think asciidoc is a lowest common denominator, reasonable for many use cases, 80/20 rule compliant substitute for LaTeX with the massive benefit that the source document is usable as text documentation as-is where LaTeX source is absolutely NOT readable as stand-alone documentation by anyone other than the author. I would use an asciidoc(tor) plugin or a recipe for using asciidoc(tor) from within fossil. I already have a lot of documentation in asciidoc format. > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of > those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > -- Matt -=- 90% of the nations wealth is held by 2% of the people. Bummer to be in the majority...
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