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wolandscat

Conditional - documentation needed

It took me a while to find out how to use ifeval syntax properly - the expression embedded appears to be python, but it's not obviously stated in most places.

Could I suggest that ifdef and ifeval, including what can come inside the [] of ifeval, is documented properly in the main Asciidoctor user manual? This would be a great help. I'm sure various people (including myself) would be prepared to build a first draft of content if it's needed.

Also:

any reason there is no 'else'?

mojavelinux

Re: Conditional - documentation needed

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Thomas,

I agree. This feature needs to be documented. Somehow, it go overlooked on the initial go to draft the Asciidoctor User Manual. It's currently an open issue:

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor.org/issues/283

> the expression embedded appears to be python

The expression is very standard/universal conditional logic, which looks a bit like Python, but is actually a custom evaluator. See https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/blob/master/lib/asciidoctor/reader.rb#L759-L767.

> any reason there is no 'else'?

It's an open issue. See https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/514

It wasn't implemented in AsciiDoc Python, so we need to design how it will work, then implement it.

Cheers,

-Dan

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It took me a while to find out how to use ifeval syntax properly - the expression embedded appears to be python, but it's not obviously stated in most places.

Could I suggest that ifdef and ifeval, including what can come inside the [] of ifeval, is documented properly in the main Asciidoctor user manual? This would be a great help. I'm sure various people (including myself) would be prepared to build a first draft of content if it's needed.

Also:

any reason there is no 'else'?

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jaredmorgs

Re: Conditional - documentation needed

I'm doing a docs PR for this at the moment. Dan's reviewed it so I'll incorporate the changes tonight and it should be ready to go.