errors running `asciidoctorjs-pdf -v` on Win10 WSL node v10.15.0

[abelsromero]

After installing asciidoctor in a npm project with the following dependencies

  "dependencies": {
    "asciidoctor": "^2.0.3",
    "asciidoctor-pdf": "^1.0.0-alpha.1",
    "gulp-cli": "^2.2.0"
  },

I get the following error

require undefined
template-require undefined
backend undefined
doctype article
header-footer true
section-numbers false
quiet false
verbose true
timings false
trace false
base-dir undefined
destination-dir undefined
verbose-mode 2
attributes
options {"doctype":"article","safe":"unsafe","header_footer":true,"verbose":2,"timings":false,"trace":false,"to_file":false,"attributes":[]}
asciidoctorjs-pdf [files...]

Options:
  --help                  Show help                                                                            [boolean]
  --doctype, -d           document type to use when converting document
                                                  [choices: "article", "book", "manpage", "inline"] [default: "article"]
  --template-require      require the specified template script                                                 [string]
  --out-file, -o          output file (default: based on path of input file) use '' to output to STDOUT         [string]
  --safe-mode, -S         set safe mode level explicitly, disables potentially dangerous macros in source files, such as
                          include::[]                [choices: "unsafe", "safe", "server", "secure"] [default: "unsafe"]
  --no-header-footer, -s  suppress output of header and footer                                [boolean] [default: false]
  --section-numbers, -n   auto-number section titles in the HTML backend disabled by default  [boolean] [default: false]
  --base-dir, -B          base directory containing the document and resources (default: directory of source file)
                                                                                                                [string]
  --destination-dir, -D   destination output directory (default: directory of source file)                      [string]
  --quiet, -q             suppress warnings                                                   [boolean] [default: false]
  --trace                 include backtrace information on errors                             [boolean] [default: false]
  --verbose, -v           enable verbose mode                                                 [boolean] [default: false]
  --timings, -t           enable timings mode                                                 [boolean] [default: false]
  --attribute, -a         a document attribute to set in the form of key, key! or key=value pair                 [array]
  --require, -r           require the specified library before executing the processor, using the standard Node require
                                                                                                                 [array]
  --watch, -w             enable watch mode                                                   [boolean] [default: false]
  --version, -V           display the version and runtime environment (or -v if no other flags or arguments)
                                                                                              [boolean] [default: false]

when running node_modules/asciidoctor-pdf/bin/asciidoctorjs-pdf -v.

Using --version works fine 👍

[ggrossetie]

It's not really an error, it's the "verbose" mode and since you didn't provide any other arguments the command is "invalid" so in this case we display the usage/help.

If you want to display the version, you need to use the uppercase -V

So either:

$ node_modules/asciidoctor-pdf/bin/asciidoctorjs-pdf -V

or:

$ node_modules/asciidoctor-pdf/bin/asciidoctorjs-pdf --version

[abelsromero]

I got it, but nevertheless is confusing:

• asciidoctor -v
• asciidoctor-pdf -v
• ./node_modules/asciidoctor/bin/asciidoctor -v

All return the version, even when the prompt says to use capital V.

[ggrossetie]

I see... it looks like I did it for the Asciidoctor.js CLI but this "feature" is not available here: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-cli.js/issues/57

I might have missed something... 🤔

[ggrossetie]

Actually I think it's already fixed on master: https://github.com/Mogztter/asciidoctor-pdf.js/blob/3ee47079489ec6b787386759786a48128d4485a7/lib/cli.js#L46-L51

I will release another alpha, stay tuned 😉

[ggrossetie]

The new version is out:

$ asciidoctor-pdf -v
Asciidoctor PDF 1.0.0-alpha.2 using Asciidoctor.js 2.0.0 (Asciidoctor 2.0.6) [https://asciidoctor.org]
Runtime Environment (node v10.15.1 on linux)
CLI version 3.0.1

[abelsromero]

You are awesome!