Give someone a fish and she is hungry again in an hour, teach someone how to fish and she has food for a lifetime.
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:
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[Zero-Dependency Approach]
try it out without installing anything using an online-editor -
The Editor Approach
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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:
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AsciiDocFX, a full blown AsciiDoc editor.
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Atom editor with AsciiDoc plugin.
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Visual Studio Code with AsciiDoc support.
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IntelliJ with AsciiDoc support.
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Eclipse with AsciiDoc support.
⇒ 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?
You install asciidoctorj via sdkman and write your first simple AsciiDoc document
== 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