[windup-dev] Asciidoc - lists

[Pete Muir]

I doubt that the github wiki will be our target output platform. We’ll likely want to embed them in to the website.

On 9 Sep 2014, at 23:24, Ondrej Zizka <ozizka at redhat.com> wrote:

> Other issues might be GitHub's translator. But IDK what's the main target medium for our docs. Is that GitHub wiki?
> 
> Ondra
> 
> 
> On 9.9.2014 13:45, Sande Gilda wrote:
>> One of Ondra's complaints is the way lists seem to display an extra paragraph between the items.  Take a look at the home page here: https://github.com/windup/windup/wiki
>> 
>> Note that the list items are spaced far apart. I search for a solution, and the only thing I could find was mention of using [options="compact"], but it didn't seem to work.
>> 
>> Ondra, what other issues did you have. 
>> 
>> 
>> On 09/09/2014 06:39 AM, Pete Muir wrote:
>>> The big advantages of asciidoc are:
>>> 
>>> * more comprehensive markup (e.g. tables, definition lists are supported as standard)
>>> * generation of pdf and epub is part of the standard toolchain
>>> 
>>> Markdown is great for short docs, but I quickly ran in to the limitations when building more complex documents.
>>> 
>>> GitHub’s support for asciidoc wasn’t great to start with, but I think the fixed it more recently. Before you abandon it, point me at the problems, I can take a quick look.
>>> 
>>> I prefer asciidoc links as you just do link:http://redhat.com[Red Hat’s website]. I find this much easier to remember than the weird []() syntax in markdown.
>>> 
>>> On 9 Sep 2014, at 01:23, Sande Gilda <sgilda at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'll change everything back to Markdown later this week. Ondra, in the 
>>>> meantime, you can work in Markdown.
>>>> 
>>>> On 09/08/2014 08:12 PM, Brad Davis wrote:
>>>>> I personally leveraged Markdown because it worked.  Asciidoc a while ago did not.  I noticed when things moved to Asciidoc, the images in the docs broke.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Brad Davis
>>>>> Red Hat Consulting
>>>>> Email: bdavis at redhat.com | c: 980.226.7865 | http://www.redhat.com
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Ondrej Zizka" <ozizka at redhat.com>
>>>>> To: "Sande Gilda" <sgilda at redhat.com>, "Windup-dev List" <windup-dev at lists.jboss.org>
>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 7:58:20 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [windup-dev] Asciidoc - lists
>>>>> 
>>>>> For the record: I don't strongly prefer either, only that I only touched
>>>>> few things in AsciiDoc, and:
>>>>>   1) certain constructs are quite less readable -> editable in the
>>>>> source text (e.g. links)
>>>>>   2) the render results are not satisfactory - things like a bold text
>>>>> in a lists are not properly implemented on whatever GitHub uses.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ondra
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 9.9.2014 01:17, Sande Gilda wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ondra asked me about the advantages of AsciiDoc over Markdown. I
>>>>>> really don't know, but I do remember Pete saying AsciiDoc would be
>>>>>> better for the quickstart README files long ago. And I believe Drupal,
>>>>>> the new host for documentation, supports AsciiDoc.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> TBH, I don't feel strongly about sticking with AsciiDoc. If no one can
>>>>>> come up with a good reason for sticking with it, I'm fine with going
>>>>>> back to Markdown if it's easier for everyone.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So, AsciiDoc advocates, please speak up now.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Sande
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 09/08/2014 06:29 PM, Sande Gilda wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Ondra,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You're asking me? ;-)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'm totally new to asciidoc. I'll research it and see what I can find
>>>>>>> out.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Sande
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 09/08/2014 06:13 PM, Ondrej Zizka wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Sande,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> is there any way to prevent asciidoc put <p> to each <li>? Makes the
>>>>>>>> list tall and breaks the whole page layout.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Ondra
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