[libreoffice-users] Re: ODF backend for AsciiDoc
On 10/01/2011 04:56 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: Hi, This is the first public announcement of a new project I started to create an ODF backend for AsciiDoc. For those who don't know AsciiDoc, AsciiDoc is a lightweight markup language that is designed to map to DocBook semantics, and as such, ideal for creating consistent documentation, articles and O'Reilly books ;-) http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc Being able to convert from AsciiDoc to ODF (onto other formats through LibreOffice) is something that always appealed to me, and lead me to create unoconv for non-interactive conversions, and get involved with docbook2odf. However XSLT is not something I can introduce with great confidence at companies as part of a technical documentation workflow and docbook2odf was not the easiest to maintain. The ultimate goal is for people to write basic documents in AsciiDoc, convert them to ODF, PDF or Word documents while applying a style in the process, without having to launch LibreOffice. However LibreOffice could be used to visually fine-tune the styling and using it in future conversions in order to give your documents a common identity (aka. corporate identity). Result: no more messing around with XSLT or XSL-FO, and much more options wrt. styling. The ODF backend for AsciiDoc is located at: https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf and feedback, pull-requests or ideas are very welcome. ... Thanks Dag! -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ODF backend for AsciiDoc
Dag, On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 10:26 -0700, NoOp wrote: On 10/01/2011 04:56 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: Hi, This is the first public announcement of a new project I started to create an ODF backend for AsciiDoc. For those who don't know AsciiDoc, AsciiDoc is a lightweight markup language that is designed to map to DocBook semantics, and as such, ideal for creating consistent documentation, articles and O'Reilly books ;-) http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc Being able to convert from AsciiDoc to ODF (onto other formats through LibreOffice) is something that always appealed to me, and lead me to create unoconv for non-interactive conversions, and get involved with docbook2odf. However XSLT is not something I can introduce with great confidence at companies as part of a technical documentation workflow and docbook2odf was not the easiest to maintain. The ultimate goal is for people to write basic documents in AsciiDoc, convert them to ODF, PDF or Word documents while applying a style in the process, without having to launch LibreOffice. However LibreOffice could be used to visually fine-tune the styling and using it in future conversions in order to give your documents a common identity (aka. corporate identity). Result: no more messing around with XSLT or XSL-FO, and much more options wrt. styling. The ODF backend for AsciiDoc is located at: https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf and feedback, pull-requests or ideas are very welcome. ... Thanks Dag! +1, Asciidocs is in the Ubuntu repository. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ODF backend for AsciiDoc
dag, best of luck for your efforts On 2 October 2011 08:12, planas jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: Dag, On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 10:26 -0700, NoOp wrote: On 10/01/2011 04:56 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: Hi, This is the first public announcement of a new project I started to create an ODF backend for AsciiDoc. For those who don't know AsciiDoc, AsciiDoc is a lightweight markup language that is designed to map to DocBook semantics, and as such, ideal for creating consistent documentation, articles and O'Reilly books ;-) http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc Being able to convert from AsciiDoc to ODF (onto other formats through LibreOffice) is something that always appealed to me, and lead me to create unoconv for non-interactive conversions, and get involved with docbook2odf. However XSLT is not something I can introduce with great confidence at companies as part of a technical documentation workflow and docbook2odf was not the easiest to maintain. The ultimate goal is for people to write basic documents in AsciiDoc, convert them to ODF, PDF or Word documents while applying a style in the process, without having to launch LibreOffice. However LibreOffice could be used to visually fine-tune the styling and using it in future conversions in order to give your documents a common identity (aka. corporate identity). Result: no more messing around with XSLT or XSL-FO, and much more options wrt. styling. The ODF backend for AsciiDoc is located at: https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf and feedback, pull-requests or ideas are very welcome. ... Thanks Dag! +1, Asciidocs is in the Ubuntu repository. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Dr soumalya ray http://drsoumalya.blogspot.com drsouma...@gmail.com MBBS,MD(PGT-C.Medicine),Ex-HousePhysician(Medicine) Skype: som3776 | Twitter: @docbkp http://twitter.com/docbkp -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted