AsciiDoc README File

Prerequisites

AsciiDoc is written in Python so you need a Python interpreter (version 2.4 or later) to execute asciidoc(1). Python is installed by default in most Linux distributions. You can download Python from the official Python website http://www.python.org.

Obtaining AsciiDoc

Documentation and installation instructions are on the AsciiDoc website http://asciidoc.org/

Tools

Current AsciiDoc version tested on Xubuntu Linux 10.04 with:

• Python 2.6.5
• DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.76.1
• xsltproc (libxml 20706, libxslt 10126 and libexslt 815).
• w3m 0.5.2
• dblatex 0.3
• FOP 0.95
• A-A-P 1.091

Copying

Copyright (C) 2002-2011 Stuart Rackham. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2).