This is a demonstration of Asciidoctor 1.5.4. And this is the preamble of this document.

Purpose

This document exercises many of the features of AsciiDoc to test the Asciidoctor implementation.

Tip
 If you want the output to look familiar, copy (or link) the AsciiDoc stylesheet, asciidoc.css, to the output directory.
Note
 Items marked with TODO are either not yet supported or a work in progress.

1. First Steps with AsciiDoc

Inline markup

  • single quotes around a phrase place emphasis

  • astericks around a phrase make the text bold

  • double astericks around one or more letters in a word make those letters bold

  • double underscore around a substring in a word emphasizes that substring

  • use carrots around characters to make them superscript

  • use tildes around characters to make them subscript

  • characters can be escaped using a \

    • for instance, you can escape a quote inside emphasized text like Here's Johnny!

  • you can safely use reserved XML characters like <, > and &, which are escaped when rendering

  • force a space between inline elements using the {sp} attribute

  • hold text together with an intrinsic non-breaking space attribute, {nbsp}

  • handle words with unicode characters like in the name Gregory Romé

  • claim your copyright ©, registered trademark ® or trademark ™

You can write text with inline links, optionally using an explicit link prefix. In either case, the link can have a query string.

If you want to break a line
just end it in a + sign
and continue typing on the next line.

1.1. Lists Upon Lists

Adjacent lists

  • this list

  • should join

  • to have

  • four items

Ordered lists

  1. These items

  2. will be auto-numbered

    1. and can be nested

  3. A numbered list can nest

    • unordered

    • list

    • items

Statement

I swear I left it in Guy's car. Let's go look for it.

term

definition line two

another term

another definition, which can be literal (indented) or regular paragraph

This should be a standalone paragraph, not grabbed by the definition list.

  • first level written on two lines

  • first level

    with this literal text

  • first level

    with more literal text

    • second level

      • third level

        • fourth level

  • back to
    first level

Let’s make a horizontal rule…​

then take a break.

2. …​and we’re back!

Want to see a Tiger?

Do you feel safer with the tiger in a box?

tiger
Figure 1. Tiger in a box

I come from an include file.

Asciidoctor usage example. The listing should contain 5 lines.
require 'asciidoctor'

doc = Asciidoctor.load '*This* is http://asciidoc.org[AsciiDoc]!', header_footer: true

puts doc.render
Output of Asciidoctor usage example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta name="generator" content="Asciidoctor 0.1.4">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Untitled</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./asciidoctor.css">
</head>
<body class="article">
<div id="header">
</div>
<div id="content">
<div class="paragraph">
<p><strong>This</strong> is <a href="http://asciidoc.org">AsciiDoc</a>!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<div id="footer-text">
Last updated 2014-01-28 20:11:37 MST
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

2.1. Block Quotes and “Smart” Ones

AsciiDoc is so powerful!

This verse comes to mind.

La la la

Here’s another quote:

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Get moving!” he shouted.

3. Getting Literal

Want to get literal? Just prefix a line with a space (just 1 space will do).
I'll join that party, too.

We forgot to mention in Ordered lists that you can change the numbering style.

  1. first item (yeah!)

  2. second item, looking so mono

  3. third item, mono it is!

4. Wrap-up

Note
 AsciiDoc is quite cool, you should try it!
Tip
Info

Go to this URL to learn more about it:

Or you could return to the [first-steps-with-asciidoc] or Purpose.

Here’s a reference to the definition of [another_term], in case you forgot it.

Note
 One more thing. Happy documenting!

When all else fails, head over to http://google.com.