asciidoc ☆

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Description:
Formatter/translator for text files to numerous formats

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 10.2.1@1 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: documentation markup text-processing developer-tools formatting

Install: brew install asciidoc

About:
AsciiDoc is a powerful text document formatter that translates source files into HTML, DocBook, PDF, and other formats. It serves as a robust alternative to Markdown with advanced features like tables, cross-references, and conditional text. The tool is widely used for technical documentation, books, and articles due to its semantic markup capabilities.

Key Features:

Multi-format output generation (HTML, PDF, EPUB, DocBook)
Advanced semantic markup with conditional content
Extensive customization via configuration files
Command-line tools for batch processing

Use Cases:

Creating technical documentation and software manuals
Generating manpages from AsciiDoc source
Writing books and long-form content with complex formatting

Alternatives:

markdown – Simpler syntax but fewer advanced features for complex documents
pandoc – Universal document converter with broader format support but different markup philosophy

License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Dependencies: docbook, python@3.14, source-highlight

Bottles available for: all

Important Notes:

If you intend to process AsciiDoc files through an XML stage
(such as a2x for manpage generation) you need to add something
like:

  export XML_CATALOG_FILES=$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/xml/catalog

to your shell rc file so that xmllint can find AsciiDoc's
catalog files.

See `man 1 xmllint' for more.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Oct 12, 2024 6:40pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	a1362669