[jbosstools-dev] AsciiDoc editor and preview

[Dan Allen]

As several projects (JDF, CDI, Arquillian, etc) move more towards using
lightweight markup languages for documentation, I see a real opportunity in
JBossTools to provide an AsciiDoc (and perhaps Markdown) editor and preview
pane, very similar to how the HTML editor works. (In fact, personally, I
see more value in this tool than the HTML editor).

The features I'd like to see are:

* syntax highlighting
* syntax assistance and/or templates
* preview pane (split or as separate tab)

It may also be interesting to have a view which can help layout text-based
diagrams. See AsciiFlow (http://asciiflow.com) to get the idea. Text-based
diagramming can save developers a lot of time.

Although AsciiDoc is written in Python, it can be invoked in Java through
Jython [1]. There is also effort underway to create a Ruby port, which
would enable it to be called via JRuby [2].

-Dan

[1]
https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc-maven-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/asciidoc/maven/plugin/PySystemObjectFactory.java
[2] https://github.com/erebor/asciidoctor

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Dan Allen
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