Convert textile to asciidoc

[bartoszmajsak]

asciidoc with all its great toolchain can improve the way how we create and render our posts, guides etc. Maybe pandoc can automate it?

[aslakknutsen]

@mojavelinux Had many of the Guides converted.. ?

[mojavelinux]

I had converted a few of the guides as a prototype, which I pushed as gists:

• https://gist.github.com/mojavelinux/4654394
• https://gist.github.com/mojavelinux/4654385

(some of the content may be out of date by now).

@bartoszmajsak I'm assuming you mean pandoc for the conversion to AsciiDoc, right? If I remember correctly, @aslakknutsen, you had hacked together a Textile to AsciiDoc converter. I had also created one, but it's pretty hackish: https://gist.github.com/mojavelinux/4708592

[bartoszmajsak]

Thanks buddy! I will investigate.

[mojavelinux]

One of the main reasons I had put off switching to AsciiDoc because, at the time, I was still waiting for extensions and custom templates to be merged into Asciidoctor. Now that they are in and mature, you should have all the flexibility you need to create the pages using the exact same HTML, which the current CSS & JavaScript expects. Taking this route could save you from having to mess with that stuff. (In effect, just an input change, not an output change). You also have the option to create custom macros to handle some of the boilerplate content (such as the release info table). (See https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-extensions-lab for a bunch of ideas).

[aslakknutsen]

@mojavelinux Yes, forgot about that. I made a RedCloth Formatter that can format Textile to Asciidoc: https://github.com/aslakknutsen/redcloth/tree/asciidoc

Don't remember the state, but I think this was one of the test outputs:
https://gist.github.com/aslakknutsen/5d159a6e761c114d0460