[windup-dev] Asciidoc - lists

Sande Gilda sgilda at redhat.com
Fri Sep 12 11:46:11 EDT 2014


Hi Lincoln,

The plan is definitely to make them all Asciidoc format. Ondra writes a 
lot of doc and if he feels more productive using Markdown when creating 
a new document, that's fine by me. When he's finished with a topic, I 
will convert it to Asciidoc. Then he will have to make any updates using 
the Asciidoc format. So everything will be Asciidoc.

Thanks,
Sande

On 09/12/2014 11:30 AM, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
> Coming in to this late, I'd prefer to stick with one format, and it 
> seems like we (as JBoss) are moving toward asciidoc, so I think we 
> should stick with that (for all of the previously stated reasons.)
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Sande Gilda <sgilda at redhat.com 
> <mailto:sgilda at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Ondra,
>
>     Of course! As I said on IRC, what ever is easiest for you is fine
>     by me. :-)
>
>     Thanks,
>     Sande
>
>
>     On 09/10/2014 11:04 PM, Ondrej Zizka wrote:
>>     Okay, in that case, let's do AsciiDoc, except for the few pages
>>     where I am just storing temp info before converting to a real
>>     page, mostly "Dev:", because that's changing often, shouldn't go
>>     to any official docs, and I edit faster in Markdown. These pages
>>     will have "Draft" at the top. But I'll update the existing pages
>>     in AsciiDoc.
>>
>>     Will that work fine?
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Ondra
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 10.9.2014 13:44, Sande Gilda wrote:
>>>     Coming into this late....
>>>
>>>     I agree with Pete. I think the Wiki is a temporary container for
>>>     the documentation. As Pete said, we may embed the docs into the
>>>     web site or it may be published to the Customer Portal. Similar
>>>     to the other documentation, we may also eventually need more
>>>     complex structures like tables and graphs and I'm pretty sure we
>>>     will want to publish PDFs. I hate to tie ourselves to something
>>>     that can't grow with us. The syntax for AsciiDoc is very similar
>>>     and I don't find it any more difficult to work with than Markdown.
>>>
>>>     I do think we need to be consistent with the documentation and
>>>     use the same tooling for all the pages. However, Ondra, if you
>>>     feel more comfortable and productive working with Markdown,
>>>     please continue to use it as you are doing an amazing job
>>>     creating documentation! When you think a page is ready, I am
>>>     happy to convert it to AsciiDoc for you.  :-)
>>>
>>>     On 09/10/2014 06:12 AM, Pete Muir wrote:
>>>>     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
>>>>     <mailto: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  <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>  <mailto: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  <mailto:bdavis at redhat.com>  | c:980.226.7865  <tel:980.226.7865>  |http://www.redhat.com  <http://www.redhat.com/>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>>>     From: "Ondrej Zizka"<ozizka at redhat.com>  <mailto:ozizka at redhat.com>
>>>>>>>>>     To: "Sande Gilda"<sgilda at redhat.com>  <mailto:sgilda at redhat.com>, "Windup-dev List"<windup-dev at lists.jboss.org>  <mailto: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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