AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing notes, documentation, articles, books, ebooks, slideshows, web pages, man pages and blogs. AsciiDoc files can be translated to many formats including HTML, PDF, EPUB, man page.
AsciiDoc is highly 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 the user.
AsciiDoc is written in Python so you need a Python interpreter (version 3.5 or later) to execute asciidoc(1). Python is installed by default in most Linux distributions. You can download Python from the official Python website http://www.python.org.
AsciiDoc’s Python 3 port is currently under development. To obtain AsciiDoc, download a copy of the repo from the GitHub project at https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc-py3 and follow the instructions in INSTALL.txt to build and install it.
Current AsciiDoc version tested on Ubuntu 18.04 with:
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Python 3.6.5
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DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.76.1
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xsltproc (libxml 20706, libxslt 10126 and libexslt 815).
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w3m 0.5.2
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dblatex 0.3
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FOP 0.95
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A-A-P 1.091