Posted by Jeremie Bresson on Oct 16, 2015; 10:05am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Asciidoctor-YAML-style-file-for-PDF-and-maven-tp3849p3859.html

Thank you a lot for the explanations.

I am sorry but I do not follow you with this workaround. I have managed to sell my team Asciidoctor with this argument: we can use it on our build servers (and on any build server), because it gets everything from maven central. This is an important point for us. For the developers locally, installation setup can be reduced to the installation of a Chrome Extension (and optionally a text editor, but this is not requested).

My vision is: I get what I can get from the current version. Everything else is marked as nice to have, "on hold" waiting for Asciidoctor issue X and/or version Y.

I am glad you helped my figuring out a way to use pdf theme with maven. This will solve some of the issues we have on our TODO list:
* running headers (eg. CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION)
* aligning figures (centered)
For image cover, I mark this as "on hold", waiting on a released version of Asciidoctor 1.6.0.

I know everybody is busy… but there is really some good stuff on the preview branches of Asciidoctor. Maybe it is time to release some alpha version of those branches. I will be happy to test and document if you go in this direction.