AsciiDoc User Guide

AsciiDoc.py Team

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Getting Started

2.1. Installing AsciiDoc
2.2. Example AsciiDoc Documents

3. AsciiDoc Document Types

3.1. article
3.2. book
3.3. manpage

4. AsciiDoc Backends

4.1. Backend Aliases
4.2. Backend Plugins

5.1. Converting DocBook to other file formats
5.2. a2x Toolchain Wrapper
5.3. HTML generation
5.4. PDF generation
5.5. HTML Help generation
5.6. Toolchain components summary
5.7. AsciiDoc dblatex configuration files
5.8. AsciiDoc DocBook XSL Stylesheets drivers

6. Generating Plain Text Files

7. HTML5 and XHTML 1.1

7.1. Themes

8. Document Structure

8.1. Block Elements
8.2. Header
8.3. Preamble
8.4. Sections
8.5. Inline Elements

9. Document Processing

10. Text Formatting

10.1. Quoted Text
10.2. Superscripts and Subscripts
10.3. Line Breaks
10.4. Page Breaks
10.5. Rulers
10.6. Tabs
10.7. Replacements
10.8. Special Words

11.1. Two line titles
11.2. One line titles
11.3. Floating titles

12. Block Titles

13. BlockId Element

14. AttributeList Element

14.1. Attribute value substitution
14.2. Common attributes

15. Paragraphs

15.1. normal paragraph syntax
15.2. literal paragraph syntax
15.3. quote and verse paragraph styles
15.4. Admonition Paragraphs

16. Delimited Blocks

16.1. Predefined Delimited Blocks
16.2. Listing Blocks
16.3. Literal Blocks
16.4. Sidebar Blocks
16.5. Comment Blocks
16.6. Passthrough Blocks
16.7. Quote Blocks
16.8. Example Blocks
16.9. Admonition Blocks
16.10. Open Blocks

17.1. Bulleted Lists
17.2. Numbered Lists
17.3. Labeled Lists
17.4. Question and Answer Lists
17.5. Glossary Lists
17.6. Bibliography Lists
17.7. List Item Continuation

18. Footnotes

19. Indexes

20. Callouts

20.1. Implementation Notes
20.2. Including callouts in included code

21.1. Inline Macros
21.2. Block Macros
21.3. System Macros
21.4. Passthrough macros
21.5. Macro Definitions

22. HTML 5 audio and video block macros

23.1. Example tables
23.2. Table input data formats
23.3. Table attributes
23.4. Column Specifiers
23.5. Cell Specifiers
23.6. Table styles
23.7. Markup attributes
23.8. Nested tables
23.9. DocBook table limitations

24. Manpage Documents

24.1. Document Header
24.2. The NAME Section
24.3. The SYNOPSIS Section
24.4. refmiscinfo attributes

25. Mathematical Formulas

25.1. LaTeX Math
25.2. MathJax
25.3. LaTeXMathML
25.4. ASCIIMath
25.5. MathML

26. Configuration Files

26.1. Configuration File Format
26.2. Miscellaneous section
26.3. Titles section
26.4. Tags section
26.5. Attributes section
26.6. Special Characters section
26.7. Quoted Text section
26.8. Special Words section
26.9. Replacements section
26.10. Markup Template Sections
26.11. Configuration file names, precedence and locations

27. Document Attributes

28. Attribute Entries

28.1. Setting configuration entries

29. Attribute Lists

29.1. Options attribute
29.2. Macro Attribute lists

30. Attribute References

30.1. Simple Attributes References
30.2. Conditional Attribute References
30.3. System Attribute References

31. Intrinsic Attributes

32. Block Element Definitions

32.1. Styles
32.2. Paragraphs
32.3. Delimited Blocks
32.4. Lists
32.5. Tables

33. Filters

33.1. Filter Search Paths
33.2. Filter Configuration Files
33.3. Example Filter
33.4. Built-in filters
33.5. Filter plugins

34. Plugins

35. Help Commands

35.1. Customizing Help

36. Tips and Tricks

36.1. Know Your Editor
36.2. Vim Commands for Formatting AsciiDoc
36.3. Troubleshooting
36.4. Gotchas
36.5. Combining separate documents
36.6. Processing document sections separately
36.7. Processing document snippets
36.8. Badges in HTML page footers
36.9. Pretty printing AsciiDoc output
36.10. Supporting minor DocBook DTD variations
36.11. Creating stand-alone HTML documents
36.12. Shipping stand-alone AsciiDoc source
36.13. Inserting blank space
36.14. Closing open sections
36.15. Validating output files

A. Migration Notes

A.1. Version 7 to version 8

B. Packager Notes

C. AsciiDoc Safe Mode

D. Using AsciiDoc with non-English Languages

E. Vim Syntax Highlighter

F. Attribute Options

G. Diagnostics

H. Backend Attributes

List of Tables

7.1. Stylesheet file locations
7.2. JavaScript file locations
16.1. Default DelimitedBlock substitutions
22.1. Audio macro attributes
22.2. Video macro attributes
23.1. Simple table
23.2. Columns formatted with strong, monospaced and emphasis styles
23.3. Horizontal and vertical source data
23.4. A table with externally sourced CSV data
23.5. Cell spans, alignments and styles
33.1. Built-in filters list

List of Examples

16.1. An example

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