support backend slidy

[franck-serot]

Hi, I installed brackets and brackets-asciidoc-preview. I read the user guide http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ and I tests theses samples with brackets : http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/article-html5-toc2.html http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/slidy.html#(1)

I have the following error with second because of backend slidy. RuntimeError: asciidoctor: FAILED: missing converter for backend 'slidy'. Processing aborted.

Could you confirm or infirm the backend slidy is supported by the extension brackets-asciidoc-preview ? How can we preview the result for slidy ?

Best regards, Franck

[nerk]

Hi, Slidy is not supported. Brackets preview uses Asciidoctor.js (the JavaScript version of Asciidoctor) for conversion. With the right backends installed, Asciidoctor supports several slide formats which are much nicer and more powerful than slidy. See https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-backends

However, the preview plugin does not install any of these backends. I absolutely agree that it would be really cool if you could preview your slides in Brackets.

I suggest to install Asciidoctor and the appropriate backends and run it from the commandline for now.

[mojavelinux]

Note that Asciidoctor doesn't have a backend for slidy. I don't have any intention of creating one because I think there are better options out there. I recommend using reveal.js or deck.js, though look for bespoke.js in the near future which is truly the best choice in my mind.

[franck-serot]

Hi, Thank you for your respones and advices. Theses samples (https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-gradle-examples) should help me to use Asciidoctor and backends (html5, pdf, reveal and deck). Best regards, Franck