Posted by Alexander Schwartz on Dec 14, 2021; 8:43am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/IDE-Previews-with-sylesheet-tp8703p8704.html

Most IDEs use the in-process convert method of the Asciidoctor project, and that will not return a header and footer. Without the header and footer the stylesheet information are lost.

One solution for this is to add a static header, and that might then miss the logic for the stylesheet attribute.

The AsciiDoc plugin for IntelliJ (that I currently maintain) re-adds the logic for the stylesheet for its custom header. See https://intellij-asciidoc-plugin.ahus1.de/docs/users-guide/features/advanced/stylesheets.html for in-depth information on how to configure this.

Other plugins might need to do the same or similar things.

To gain more insight in this, I recommend you head over to the Zulip community that is more active than this forum, and will IMHO eventually replace this forum. https://asciidoctor.zulipchat.com/login/