Posted by Andrew Carver on Jun 14, 2018; 12:53am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Am-I-missing-something-big-about-book-production-tp6365p6376.html

P.P.S. Interestingly, there's been quite a bit of discussion--starting 5 years ago--on the need for an Asciidoctor HTML5 backend "that maximizes semantic constructs"; this included Dan Allen's suggestion, in Nov. 2013, that "it makes the most sense to align with the HTMLBook specification since a lot of thinking and discussion went into it to accomplish this very goal":

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/242