Posted by shai on Jun 11, 2018; 9:07am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Am-I-missing-something-big-about-book-production-tp6365.html

Hi,
I have a feeling I'm missing a big piece of knowledge about the process of book production. I've been using asciidoc for a few years both in our website and developer guide. It works great for these cases.

However, I'm now in the process of publishing a new book. I'm trying to get it to a level of refinement I see from big publishers like O'Reilly, Manning etc. both of which use Asciidoc. But I can't seem to get styling/functionality even close to what these books have. I'm assuming they don't use asciidoctor-pdf as it doesn't support footnotes/image wrapping etc. So I went with the FOP backend which would also allow customizing the docbook output for features that aren't supported in asciidoc yet (e.g. inline callouts, image wrapping etc.).

But is that what they do? Or is there some other toolchain in the professional realm that I'm ignorant about?