Posted by pepijnve on
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Custom-styles-support-tp441.html

I'm experimenting with writing specifications in asciidoc. In order to make this easier I would like to use custom block styles for things like for instance requirements.

With asciidoc this is possible by adding the [blockdef-*] entries to the config file. I'm now trying to do the same thing with asciidoctor, but this doesn't seem to be supported.

I've already tried to be get this to work by adding entries to Asciidoctor::PARAGRAPH_STYLES and/or Asciidoctor::DELIMITED_BLOCKS. This got me one step further, but then I hit checks in lexer.rb that raise 'invalid style' or 'unsupported block type' errors.

Are there any plans to support this in asciidoctor? I would be happy to contribute a patch for this, but I would like to know if someone has thought this through already and if so, how they planned to tackle this.
My initial thought would be to relax the checks in lexer.rb and catch missing style problems later on during rendering. Is this a good way forward or are the checks in the lexer there for other reasons as well?