Posted by smitty4doc on Jan 28, 2021; 3:18am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Ways-to-write-Pseudo-Code-in-Asciidoc-tp8464.html

Anyone have any suggestions on how to write Pseudo Code in Asciidoc?

I tried something like:

IF some condition::
     *Method* and it's description::::
else::
    Some other *Method* and it's description::::
EndIf

but this got ugly quick when the nesting started going deep and I needed deeper indentation (only 3 or 4 levels though).

I thought about using [source,pseudo], but this doesn't exist and it only helps in preserving indentation,
but I want to be able to bold some text in the pseudo code too.

This is not formal Pseudo code, I just want a good way to communicate some Logic to Business Analyst types that are not programmers and don't want to read code.

I ended up using Mermaid and creating a flowchart, but I would have preferred something simpler and am looking for ideas for ways I might incorporate nice looking Pseudo code into AsciiDoc.


Thanks,
Smitty