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Re: Extensions of useful macros for software documentation

mojavelinux
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@mariocup,

I'm excited to see that you are developing extensions. Now you're really tapping into the power of Asciidoctor.

I encourage you to set up a project on GitHub to share these extensions and even package and publish them as a RubyGem for others to use (and yourself). You certainly don't need permission from me or anyone else to set up an extensions project. It will also provide the best opportunity to collect feedback from others and improve the code. Just go for it, then let us know where to find it ;)

Cheers,

-Dan


On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 3:10 PM mariocup [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:
Dear Asciidoctor community,

I am using Asciidoc to write documentation for software and I tried to write some macros to cover the following requirements.

opt::[] to format a string as option e.g. used to describe command line tools
var::[] format a variable as parameter by adding <parameter>
file::[] format a string in the text as file e.g. to mention a header file etc.

optentry: a list environment (role=optentry) which renders the list entry as option.

fcntenry: create a list environment (role=fcnentry) which renders the list entry with rouge syntax highlighting.

I consider this functionality also useful for other users and I would be more than happy if the functionality could be added to the extension lab after review and maintained by the community.

I collected my extensions in a file (can be passed by Asciidoctor option e.g. -r myextensions.rb).

```
RUBY_ENGINE == 'opal' ? (require 'variable-preprocessor/extension') : (require_relative 'variable-preprocessor/extension')
RUBY_ENGINE == 'opal' ? (require 'opt-preprocessor/extension') : (require_relative 'opt-preprocessor/extension')
RUBY_ENGINE == 'opal' ? (require 'file-preprocessor/extension') : (require_relative 'file-preprocessor/extension')
RUBY_ENGINE == 'opal' ? (require 'optentry-treeprocessor/extension') : (require_relative 'optentry-treeprocessor/extension')
RUBY_ENGINE == 'opal' ? (require 'fcnentry-treeprocessor/extension') : (require_relative 'fcnentry-treeprocessor/extension')


Extensions.register do
#  preprocessor  GitMetadataPreprocessor
  preprocessor  VariablePreprocessor
  preprocessor  FilePreprocessor
  preprocessor  OptPreprocessor
  treeprocessor OptEntryTreeProcessor
  treeprocessor FcnEntryTreeProcessor
end
```

The code looks like

# fcnentry

```
require 'asciidoctor/extensions' unless RUBY_ENGINE == 'opal'
require 'asciidoctor-pdf'
require 'asciidoctor-pdf/rouge_ext'

include Asciidoctor

module RawTerm
  def text
    @text
  end

  def text= text
    @text = text
  end
end

class FcnEntryTreeProcessor < Extensions::Treeprocessor
  def process doc
    (doc.find_by context: :dlist, role: 'fcnentry').each do |dlist|
      dlist.items.each do |dlist_entry|
        terms, description = dlist_entry
        term_0 = terms[0]
        term_0.extend RawTerm
        lexer = Rouge::Lexer.find 'c'
        formatter = if doc.backend == "html5"
          Rouge::Formatters::HTML.new(Rouge::Theme.find(doc.attr('rouge-style', 'github')).new)
        else
          Rouge::Formatters::HTMLInline.new(Rouge::Theme.find(doc.attr('rouge-style', 'github')).new)
        end
        newText = formatter.format(lexer.lex(term_0.text))
        term_0.text = newText
      end
    end
  end
end
````

# opentry

```
require 'asciidoctor/extensions' unless RUBY_ENGINE == 'opal'

include Asciidoctor

def convert_to_opt block
    newText = "`" << block.text << "`"
    ListItem.new(block.parent, newText)
  end

class OptEntryTreeProcessor < Extensions::Treeprocessor
  def process doc
    (doc.find_by context: :dlist, role: 'optentry').each do |dlist|
      dlist.items.each.with_index do |dlist_entry, index|
        #puts dlist_entry.inspect, index
        terms, description = dlist_entry
        terms[0] = convert_to_opt terms[0]
      end
    end
  end
end
```

# variable

```
require 'asciidoctor/extensions' unless RUBY_ENGINE == 'opal'

include ::Asciidoctor

class VariablePreprocessor < Extensions::Preprocessor
  def process document, reader
    lines = []
    while reader.has_more_lines?
      lines << reader.read_line
    end
    lines.map do |line|
      while ((startIndex = line.index("var::")))
        if match = /(\w*-*(<\w*\s*\w*>)*)*/.match(line[(startIndex + 5)..-1])[0]
          line.insert(startIndex + 5 + match.length, ">")
          line[startIndex..startIndex+4] = "<"
        end
      end
    end
    Asciidoctor::Reader.new lines
  end
end
```

# opt

```
require 'asciidoctor/extensions' unless RUBY_ENGINE == 'opal'

include ::Asciidoctor

class OptPreprocessor < Extensions::Preprocessor
  def process document, reader
    lines = []
    while reader.has_more_lines?
      lines << reader.read_line
    end
    lines.map do |line|
      while ((startIndex = line.index("opt::")))
        if match = /(\w*-*(<\w*\s*\w*>)*)*/.match(line[(startIndex + 5)..-1])[0]
          line.insert(startIndex + 5 + match.length, "`")
          line[startIndex..startIndex+4] = "`-"
        end
      end
    end
    Asciidoctor::Reader.new lines
  end
end
```

# file

```
require 'asciidoctor/extensions' unless RUBY_ENGINE == 'opal'

include ::Asciidoctor

class FilePreprocessor < Extensions::Preprocessor
  def process document, reader
    lines = []
    while reader.has_more_lines?
      lines << reader.read_line
    end
    lines.map do |line|
      while ((startIndex = line.index("file::")))
        if match = /([[:punct:]]|\w)*\.\w+/.match(line[(startIndex + 6)..-1])[0]
          line.insert(startIndex + 6 + match.length, "`")
          line[startIndex..startIndex+5] = "`"
        end
      end
    end
    Asciidoctor::Reader.new lines
  end
end
```

Any feedback is welcome.



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