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. ...
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