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Re: Table of contents -- need some AST code

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mojavelinux

Re: Table of contents -- need some AST code

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This may have been discussed before -- an "Asciidoc backend". It should
be very easy to write as an extension

I've experimented with creating such a converter, but haven't gotten around to publishing anything yet. It turns out, some parts are simple, other parts are pretty complex. Mostly whitespace is a challenge. It turns out to be quite similar to the manpage backend (see https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/blob/master/lib/asciidoctor/converter/manpage.rb). I think we still need changes to the API to make is truly easy.

Another approach, which I think is more complete atm, is to convert to DocBook, then use docbookrx to convert to AsciiDoc.

> So why am I getting html when I apply #content?

Your backend must be set to html5, which is the default.

-Dan

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