egalitarian wrote
I wonder if I could write diary and take notes in AsciiDoctor and keep it unchanged for decades or even centuries.
I want long-term document archival.
I'll let someone else speak about the stability of Asciidoctor.
For long-term document archival I look at where we've come from. You can still open a text file and an html file created 20 years ago. So my plan is to preserve my documents in AsciiDoc format.
If someone found the original .adoc files, they could still open them in a text editor and read the documents.
I think using Asciidoctor to output the documents to HTML would also be a good way to archive the files because browsers of the future would probably still be able to render the page.
Another way to think about it this is how can you read a MS-Word-95 document today? I've been successful dredging up text out of some of those files. But if you didn't keep buying MS-Word and converting your documents to the new format, eventually the newer versions of Word would not be able to open older documents.
That's why I've concluded the best way to preserve a file, besides printing it out, is to store it as text. Asciidoctor reads so well as text. Even if Asciidoctor did not exist, the digital document could live on.
( see Dan's response about the
goal of Asciidoctor http://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Re-How-stable-is-AsciiDoctor-tp5804.html
and Dan's response about
compatibility http://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Is-backward-compatibility-an-important-goal-of-AsciiDoctor-since-1-5-0-tp5798p5803.html )
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