Posted by Conrad on Jan 20, 2020; 2:55pm
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Questions-from-a-novice-tp7496p7506.html

Thank you very much, @abelsromero.

To be honest, I am still confused and very frustrated. But it got a little bit better with your help.

(1)
"If you want to use Asciidoctorj as a command tool, use cocolatey" -> I use it as CLI but it was sufficient to download asciidoctorj-2.2.0-bin, unpack it und run the bat for each transformation. It run. So where is the disadvantage?

(2)
"Asciidoc FX uses asciidoctor.js" -> is that correct?
"That’s why asciidoctor-pdf is not integrated." -> is that correct? Can I integrate a libarry on my own?

(3)
Installing Asciidoctor is difficult for me because of gem and proxies. Can I also download an install ist on my own (like AsciidocctorJ)? If no, why can I just download and run AsciidocctorJ without using gem? My understanding ist that AsciidocctorJ  just runs Asciidoctor as JRuby in a JVM.

(4)
Is there an advantage using Asciidoctor instead of AsciidocctorJ?

Conrad