Styles/roles in PDF output

Hi,

we're new to Asciidoctor (really new - we've started playing around with it a week ago after I finally convinced those in charge that a GUI text processor is the wrong tool for writing complex technical documentation).

Our primary target format is PDF, although I welcome that Asciidoctor will allow us to also produce HTML documentation. The one major feature we need, and which apparently doesn't work out of the box with PDF output, is using custom styles for individual words, instead of * and _. For example, we would like to mark a word as a variable name, and then separately define how variable names should be styled.

According to the documentation, that works via role attributes in HTML, but from what I've been able to find out, it doesn't carry over to the PDF output (and at least with asciidoctor-pdf, which we are currently, using, I've confirmed that).

After browsing this forum for a while, it seems to be that a clean solution to this would be an inline macro, e.g.:
style:myVariableName[variable]

I've managed to create a simple inline macro with Java that simply outputs the input text without special processing (or just simple string replacements), but I can't seem to find out how I could further modify the output e.g. by assigning a style to the text (bold and italic would do for starters).

Am I on the right track to begin with? Any pointers?

Thx,
Marian.

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