ANN: AsciiDoc 8.1.0 released

Stuart Rackham srackham at methods.co.nz
Tue Oct 24 22:23:29 CEST 2006


Noteworthy additions in this releases are:

- Automatic HTML table of contents generation.
- A music filter which translates music in LilyPond or ABC notation to
   Western classical notation.

Details at http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/

What is it?
-----------
AsciiDoc is an uncomplicated text document format for writing
articles, short documents, books and UNIX man pages.

AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML, XHTML and DocBook (articles,
books and refentry documents) using the asciidoc(1) command. DocBook
can be post-processed to presentation formats such as HTML, PDF, roff,
and Postscript using readily available Open Source tools.

AsciiDoc is configurable: both the AsciiDoc source file syntax and the
backend output markups (which can be almost any type of SGML/XML
markup) can be customized and extended by user.

Requisites
----------
Python 2.3 or higher.

Obtaining AsciiDoc
------------------
The latest AsciiDoc version, examples and online documentation can be
downloaded from http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/

AsciiDoc is also hosted at the SourceForge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/


Regards, Stuart
-- 
Stuart Rackham


More information about the Python-announce-list mailing list