Text Processing Tools
AsciiDoc Intro & Examples
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What is AsciiDoc?
Here is a link to the original
asciidoc homepage and the newer AsciiDoctor Version.
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My AsciiDoc example input file (in German)
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The different HTML output of the example document
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The default HTML style version with a sidebar table of contents
generated with 'asciidoc -a toc2 asciidoc-intro.txt'
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The AsciiDoctor HTML style version with a sidebar table of contents
generated with asciidoctor theme'asciidoc --theme doctor -a toc2 -o asciidoc-intro-doctor.html asciidoc-intro.txt'
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The flask HTML style version with a sidebar table of contents
generated with 'asciidoc --theme flask -a toc2 -o asciidoc-intro-flask.html asciidoc-intro.txt'
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The volnitsky HTML style version with a sidebar table of contents
generated with 'asciidoc --theme volnitsky -a toc2 -o asciidoc-intro-volnitsky.html asciidoc-intro.txt'
 
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The same for PDF output
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The native a2x fop version
generated with
'a2x --fop --fop-opts="-l de" -f pdf -o asciidoc-intro-fop.pdf asciidoc-intro.txt'
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And now the FOP generated
pdf output
with a modified xslt parameter file
'a2x -a toc2 -a compact-option --xsl-file=my-fo.xsl --xsltproc-opts=$(xslt_opts) --fop --fop-opts="-l de" -f pdf asciido-intro.txt'
 
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And at least
text output is also possible
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Some useful links around DocBook & AsciiDoc
 
PIC Tools
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Pikchr is a pic(1) clone
which generates SVG directly.
It provides also some useful extensions, like new objects
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Convert a 
pic(1)
picture into SVG format
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A pic(1) library to draw flowcharts
 
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A pic(1) library to draw network diagrams
 
PS/PDF Tools
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Rearrange some pages in a postscript file and convert it to pdf.
This is mainly used to bring the Table of Contents page to the
begining of a pdf document.
 
MM Tools
Groff