> If you’ve been relying on Markdown and occasionally fighting its quirks, AsciiDoc might be the structured, fully-featured alternative you didn’t know you needed.
No, I'm afraid it's the format I know I don't need. At least not for the kind of things I usually use markdown for.
Readme files, technical documentation, moderately complex websites with templating and rendering engines - markdown works just fine. Sometimes with a custom `|||warning\n...\n|||\n` thrown in to render something in a box with a red border.
I get that there's a market in the space occupied by TeX, Typst (underrated IMHO), and possibly MS Word or Quark Express (for non-techies). Libreoffice is great in theory but, again IMHO, "eh" in practice. That market is generating book-length documents with all the cross-references and other features that needs.
Asciidoc is Markdown's big brother? I'll carry on playing with the little brother, thank you very much.
Also the whole page is an ad for their own editor tool. $9.99 per month so you don't need to use your own editor and unintuitive tools like (gasp!) the terminal.
My worldview is there's a big market for WYSIWYG editors, and a big "market" for FOSS editors and tools, but not too much in between for simple text editing.
I can't think of many scenarios where someone does care about the backing format or explicitly wants to write raw asciidoc, but doesn't want to just use asciidoctor or other free CLI tools.
No, I'm afraid it's the format I know I don't need. At least not for the kind of things I usually use markdown for.
Readme files, technical documentation, moderately complex websites with templating and rendering engines - markdown works just fine. Sometimes with a custom `|||warning\n...\n|||\n` thrown in to render something in a box with a red border.
I get that there's a market in the space occupied by TeX, Typst (underrated IMHO), and possibly MS Word or Quark Express (for non-techies). Libreoffice is great in theory but, again IMHO, "eh" in practice. That market is generating book-length documents with all the cross-references and other features that needs.
That said, Robert Nystrom of "Crafting Interpreters" managed this just fine with markdown and a few custom scripts: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-craft... , https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/tree/mast... . This is how those famous 10x writers/programmers work, I guess.
Asciidoc is Markdown's big brother? I'll carry on playing with the little brother, thank you very much.
Also the whole page is an ad for their own editor tool. $9.99 per month so you don't need to use your own editor and unintuitive tools like (gasp!) the terminal.