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AsciiDoc is pretty good because it's similar enough and standardized better. Also more extensible, yet a bit more complicated to get running.
by carlmr 8y ago
AsciiDoc is pretty good because it's similar enough and standardized better. Also more extensible, yet a bit more complicated to get running.
- eeZah7Ux 8y agoAsciiDoc is really underrated. It's the only format that is simple and readable like MarkDown and yet is powerful enough to write whole books.
- TuringTest 8y agoThat may be because of the vicious cycle of lack of popularity, which leads to worse tool support, which leads to people preferring Markdown-based tools, which leads to increased spread of markdown and less popularity for AsciiDoc. One lesser known fact of AsciiDoc is that it's a markup syntax for DocBook, so it supports the full feature set of this book-creating toolchain. Markdown can only dream of having support for more than simple web pages and single-page documents.
- Jenkins2000 8y agoAsciiDoc is also supported by GitHub, I just use README.adoc instead of README.md. The IntelliJ plugin is excellent. And https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoctor-diagram/ https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoctor-diagram/ is amazing. I use PlantUML in it and love it.