Gradle-example producing pdf via docbook

We are migrating from a homebuilt doc toolchain to asciidoctor. We need PDF-output, but due to issues with the current (alpha-level) backend, we cannot use that. I understand that the proper alternative then is to go via docbook.

* Are there any examples of this, anywhere?
* In particular, are there any examples using gradle to do this?

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-gradle-examples only has examples using the pdf backend, which does not work for us.

Eirik

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So, truth to be told, I found both of these quite confusing:

* Spring uses a custom docbook plugin that really only generates their reference document

* Hibernate doesn't seem to generate pdf through their docbook toolchain (only html and html_single)

It gave me somewhere to start, though, and after waaay to much fiddeling something works. I haven't really tried it out on our big docs yet, but I have created a sample project that illustrates the concept: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-gradle-examples/pull/27

Eirik

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:19 AM mojavelinux [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

I recommend looking at either the Hibernate ORM or the Sprint projects. They both use the setup you describe.

For example, see https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/blob/master/documentation/documentation.gradle#L236-L257

Cheers,

-Dan

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:57 AM, elygre [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:
We are migrating from a homebuilt doc toolchain to asciidoctor. We need PDF-output, but due to issues with the current (alpha-level) backend, we cannot use that. I understand that the proper alternative then is to go via docbook.

* Are there any examples of this, anywhere?
* In particular, are there any examples using gradle to do this?

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-gradle-examples only has examples using the pdf backend, which does not work for us.

Eirik

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