ii.com: AsciiDoc Kitchen Sink

About this page

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. :compat-mode:

Preamble

This is a demonstration of Asciidoctor. And this is the preamble of this document.

Purpose

This document exercises many of the features of AsciiDoc to test the Asciidoctor implementation.

💡	If you want the output to look familiar, copy (or link) the AsciiDoc stylesheet, asciidoc.css, to the output directory.

ℹ	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
1. 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.

term: definition line two
another term: another definition, which can be literal (indented) or regular paragraph

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 Tiger

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.render

Here’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

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 mono
third item, mono it is!

Wrap-up

ℹ	AsciiDoc is quite cool, you should try it!

💡	Info Go to this URL to learn more about it: asciidoc.org 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.

ℹ	One more thing. Happy documenting!

AsciiDoc Kitchen Sink