Posted 13 years ago
		by Brian Jepson
	
Hi,
AsciiDoc is a markup language similar to Markdown, but AsciiDoc is ideal for writing long-form works such as books. O'Reilly and MAKE both use it to create books (I'm a book editor on the MAKE team).
Here is some more information:
- File type name: AsciiDoc
 - Extensions: .asc, .asciidoc
 - Markup language used for writing books and articles.
 - Documentation and specs: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
 - Syntax support in other editors: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/#_editor_support, Syntax cheatsheet: http://powerman.name/doc/asciidoc
 - The language is commented with // for inline comments, and //// for block comments.
 - Most delimiters would make sense for highlighting; the Vim highlighter might give you some ideas about how far to take that.
 - Example articles: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/#_overview_and_examples
 
Thanks,
Brian