Libasciidoc
Libasciidoc is an open source Go library to convert from Asciidoc to HTML.
Supported syntax
Although it does not support the full Asciidoc/Asciidoctor syntax, Libasciidoc already provides users with the following features:
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Title and Sections level 1 to 6
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Document authors and revision
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Attribute declaration and substitution
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Paragraphs and admonition paragraphs
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Delimited Blocks (fenced blocks, listing blocks, example blocks, comment blocks, quoted blocks, sidebar blocks, verse blocks)
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Source code highlighting of delimited blocks (use either
chromaorpygmentsas thesource-highlighter) -
Literal blocks (paragraph starting with a space, with the
....delimiter or with the[literal]attribute) -
Quoted text (bold, italic, monospace, marked, superscript and subscript) and substitution prevention using the backslash (
\) character -
Single and double quoted typographic quotes (e.g. ‘single’ and “double”)
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Explicit and implicit curved apostrophe
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Copyright ©, Registered ®, and Trademark ™ symbols
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Passthrough (wrapping with a single plus or a triple plus, or using the
pass:[]orpass:q[]macros) -
External links in paragraphs (
https://,http://,ftp://,irc://,mailto:) -
Inline images in paragraphs (
image:) -
Image blocks (
image::) -
Icons including font, graphic icons, both in admonition blocks and inline (
icon:) -
Element attributes (
ID,link,title,role, etc.) including short-hand ([#id.role1.role2]) -
Ordered lists including custom numbering types (
arabic,upperroman,lowergreek, and so forth) -
Unordered lists including bullet styles
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Labeled lists, including
[horizontal]and[qanda]styles -
Nesting of links of different types & attributes
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Tables (basic support: header line and cells on multiple lines, top-level table styles)
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Horizontal rules (thematic breaks) and page breaks
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Table of contents
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YAML front-matter
See also the known limitations page for differences between Asciidoc/Asciidoctor and Libasciidoc.
Further elements will be supported in the future. Feel free to open issues here to help prioritizing the upcoming work.
Output Formats (backend)
Using -b (or --backend) the following formats are supported:
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html5(alsohtml), this is the default -
xhtml5(alsoxhtml)
Installation
This is a standard Go package, and it installs like you might expect.
To install it in your $GOPATH (assuming $GOPATH/bin is on your path), just use go install:
$ go get -u github.com/bytesparadise/libasciidoc
Usage
Command Line
The libasciidoc library includes a minimalist command line interface to generate the HTML content from a given file:
$ libasciidoc -s content.adocuse libasciidoc --help to check all available options.
Code integration
Libasciidoc provides 2 functions to convert an Asciidoc content into HTML:
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Converting an
io.Readerinto an HTML document:Convert(r io.Reader, output io.Writer, config configuration.Configuration) (types.Metadata, error)
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Converting a file (given its name) into an HTML document:
ConvertFile(output io.Writer, config configuration.Configuration) (types.Metadata, error)
where the returned types.Metadata object contains the document’s title which is not part of the generated HTML <body> part, as well as the other attributes of the source document.
All options/settings are passed via the config parameter.
Macro definition
The user can define a macro by calling renderer.WithMacroTemplate() and passing return value to conversion functions.
renderer.WithMacroTemplate() defines a macro by the given name and associates the given template. The template is an implementation of renderer.MacroTemplate interface (ex. text.Template)
Libasciidoc calls Execute() method and passes types.UserMacro object to template when rendering.
An example the following:
var tmplStr = `<span>Example: {{.Value}}{{.Attributes.GetAsString "suffix"}}</span>`
var t = template.New("example")
var tmpl = template.Must(t.Parse(tmplStr))
output := &strings.Builder{}
content := strings.NewReader(`example::hello world[suffix=!!!!!]`)
libasciidoc.Convert(content, output, renderer.WithMacroTemplate(tmpl.Name(), tmpl))How to contribute
Please refer to the Contribute page.
License
Libasciidoc is available under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.
Trademark
AsciiDoc is a trademark of the Eclipse Foundation
