Give someone a fish and she is hungry again in an hour, teach someone how to fish and she has food for a lifetime.
— (presumably) Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (1885)

Get Started…​ Quickly

There are several ways to getting started with the Docs-as-Code approach.

We’ll show you how to create and render a simple AsciiDoc document:

  1. [Zero-Dependency Approach]
    try it out without installing anything using an online-editor

  2. The Editor Approach

  3. The Build Tool Approach: Integrate Docs-As-Code into your build process.

The Zero-Dependencies Approach

You just want to give AsciiDoc a try without installing anything?

Go to AsciiDocLIVE to try an online editor with preview.

The Editor Approach

If you are willing to install an editor or a plugin for your favorite IDE, you can install one of the following:

⇒ see also our (German) article about Tools for AsciiDoc

The Build-Tool Approach

"You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door."[1]

There is a Maven, a Gradle and a Command-Line-Tool nearby.

What will you choose?

Command-Line
Maven
Gradle
> use Command-Line-Tool

You install asciidoctorj via sdkman and write your first simple AsciiDoc document

test.adoc
== Headline

first paragraph

second paragraph

=== second level headline

a link: https://docs-as-co.de[docs-as-co.de]

You then convert it via

asciidoctorj test.adoc

1. If you are born after 1980 - this is a famous quote from Zork-1, a text adventure created by Infocom