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I've faced the same issue regarding buy-in. For some reason, lots of users flat out refuse to use asciidoc. I think this reaction is purely anxiety around havin
by gouggoug 4y ago
I've faced the same issue regarding buy-in. For some reason, lots of users flat out refuse to use asciidoc. I think this reaction is purely anxiety around having to 1- learn something new (a new language) 2- to do something that most people find unpleasant (writing documentation).
> but it also has a lot of syntactic complexity and idiosyncrasies
I don't think that's true; for basic usage, which is probably 90% of what people use, Markdown and Asciidoc syntax are basically the [0]same (AsciiDoc is also compatible with Markdown's syntax)
For advanced use, Markdown syntax has to be augmented via one of the many "flavors" (i.e. no real advanced features out of the box) and these flavors usually mean typing raw HTML directly in the documentation.
Asciidoc advanced syntax on the other hand is available out of the box for whoever wants to use it, but you don't have to use it.
[0]: https://asciidoc.org/#compare https://asciidoc.org/#compare