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marco.m

asciidoctor-pdf: how to center the section title?

Hi,
thanks a lot for asciidoctor! :-)

The subject says it all, how can I center align the section titles? I am making my poor's man PDF slides and I am almost there, I just need to center align the section titles, that I use as slide title, with the trick of using the book doctype so that I have page break on each section. 1 section == 1 slide :-)

thanks
marco.m

Jeremie Bresson

Re: asciidoctor-pdf: how to center the section title?

I was thinking, the PDF theme guide could help you. But I do not see a "heading_align" property...

marco.m

Re: asciidoctor-pdf: how to center the section title?

Before asking, I read and grepped through the PDF style guide and all the documentation, but I didn't find anything that I could apply to heading / section titles for PDF :-)

But thanks anyway for trying...

mojavelinux

Re: asciidoctor-pdf: how to center the section title?

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marco.m, you are indeed correct, we are currently hard-coding the section title alignment (to the value left). This should be taken from the theme instead. Do you want to file an issue?

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf/issues

-Dan

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Before asking, I read and grepped through the PDF style guide and all the documentation, but I didn't find anything that I could apply to heading / section titles for PDF :-)

But thanks anyway for trying...

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marco.m

Re: asciidoctor-pdf: how to center the section title?

Hey Dan,

just filed.

And, thanks again for all your efforts for asciidoctor! I spent years, really years, trying many text-based typesetting systems (LaTeX, rST, rst2pdf, markdown, multimarkdown).

Markdown is the best for readability when you need only simple markup.

I tried rst2pdf, which bypasses LaTeX. But I think that rST is less readable than asciidoc, and rst2pdf is not active anymore.

Finally I found asciidoc, which is powerful, allows to avoid LaTex and is almost as readable as markdown, but brings in DocBook. Each customisation requires almost as much pain as touching low-level TeX.

And then, I found asciidoctor, and then asciidoctor-pdf, which goes faster and bypasses DocBook. I am finally happy :-)

Sorry for the long story! I would expect many people to share a common experience :-)

marco.m

> On 28 Oct 2015, at 05:41, mojavelinux [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> marco.m, you are indeed correct, we are currently hard-coding the section title alignment (to the value left). This should be taken from the theme instead. Do you want to file an issue?
>
> https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf/issues
>
> -Dan
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:51 PM, marco.m [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Before asking, I read and grepped through the PDF style guide and all the documentation, but I didn't find anything that I could apply to heading / section titles for PDF :-)
>
> But thanks anyway for trying...
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mojavelinux

Re: asciidoctor-pdf: how to center the section title?

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Thanks for filing the issue!

Sorry for the long story! I would expect many people to share a common experience :-)

Thank you for sharing it! It's stories like yours that keep me motivated everyday. And, in fact, we share a very similar story. When I discovered AsciiDoc {1}, I knew I had finally found a language that would allow me to express myself and write with ease. But, at the time, it didn't generate very nice output. So I began my quest. A quest that is far from over. Each time I touch Asciidoctor, I try to make the experience even better for both the writer and the reader. If we put our heads together, I'm sure we can continue discovering more happiness.

Cheers!

-Dan

:1: https://plus.google.com/114112334290393746697/posts/CdXJt6hVn5A

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