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Most of this page was forked[1] from Dan Allen's gist.github.com/mojavelinux/4402636. This gist is “a sample AsciiDoc file for testing Asciidoctor” and uses some legacy AsciiDoc syntax.
💡︎ | If you use Asciidoctor and want to use legacy AsciiDoc syntax in an article, put the following in the article’s AsciiDoc document header. |
Preamble
This is a demonstration of Asciidoctor. And this is the preamble of this document.
💡︎ | If you want the output to look familiar, copy (or link) the AsciiDoc stylesheet, asciidoc.css, to the output directory. |
👉️ | Items marked with TODO are either not yet supported or a work in progress. |
First steps with AsciiDoc
Inline markup
underscores around a phrase place emphasis
asterisks around a phrase make the text bold
double asterisks around one or more letters in a word make those letters bold
double underscore around a substring in a word emphasize that substring
use carets around characters to make them superscript
use tildes around characters to make them subscript
to pass through HTML directly, surround the text with triple plus
characters can be escaped using a \
for instance, you can escape a quote inside emphasized text like Here's Johnny!
you can safely use reserved XML characters like <, > and &, which are escaped when rendering
force a space between inline elements using the {sp} attribute
hold text together with an intrinsic non-breaking space attribute, {nbsp}
handle words with unicode characters like in the name Gregory Romé
claim your copyright ©, registered trademark ® or trademark ™
You can write text with inline links, optionally using an explicit link prefix. In either case, the link can have a query string.
If you want to break a line
just end it in a + sign
and continue typing on the next line.
Lists Upon Lists
Adjacent lists
this list
should join
to have
four items
Numbered lists
These items
will be auto-numbered
and can be nested
A numbered list can nest
unordered
list
items
Statement
I swear I left it in Guy's car. Let's go look for it.
This should be a standalone paragraph, not grabbed by the definition list.
first level written on two lines
first level
with this literal text
second level
third level
fourth level
back to
first level
Let’s make a horizontal rule…
then take a break.
We’re back!
Want to see a 
Do you feel safer with the tiger in a box?
Figure 1. Tiger in a box
Included section
Look, I came from out of the blue!
I’m keepin' it open.
An open block, like this one, can contain other blocks.
It can also act as any other block. (TODO)
Asciidoctor usage example, should contain 3 lines
doc = Asciidoctor::Document.new("*This* is it!", :header_footer => false)
puts doc.renderHere’s what it outputs (using the built-in templates):
<div class="paragraph"> <p><strong>This</strong> is it!</p> </div>
“Quotes”
AsciiDoc is so powerful!
This verse comes to mind.
La la la
Here’s another quote:
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Getting literal
Want to get literal? Just prefix a line with a space (just one will do).
I'll join that party, too.
We forgot to mention in Numbered lists that you can change the numbering style.
first item (yeah!)
second item, looking
so monothird item,
monoit is!
Wrap-up
👉️ | AsciiDoc is quite cool, you should try it! |
💡︎ | Info Go to this URL to learn more about it: Or you could return to the First Steps or Purpose. |
Here’s a reference to the definition of another term, in case you forgot it.
👉️ | One more thing. Happy documenting! |
When all else fails, head over to duckduckgo.com.
Related pages
Infinite Ink’s #asciidoc Portal includes asciidoc-related links from around the web, including:
1. Infinite Ink’s fork of Dan Allen’s gist corrected some typos, changed the section headings to Infinite Ink’s style, and changed google to duckduckgo.