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>7. asciidoc</H1
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>There is a relatively new tool called <A
HREF="http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/"
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>asciidoc</A
> that tackles
several of the problems associated with DocBook rather effectively.</P
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>The <B
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>asciidoc</B
> tool accepts a simple,
lightweight syntax resembling wiki markups and turns it into various
output formats using DocBook as an intermediate stage. The asciidoc
markup is easier to compose in than DocBook itself, and serves
as its own best rendering in flat ASCII.</P
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>Printing support in <B
CLASS="command"
>asciidoc</B
> is through an
experimental LaTeX back end. It is most useful for writing short
to medium-length documents for World Wide Web distribution.</P
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