Using AsciiDoc to write my two books

[skwee357]

https://www.yieldcode.blog/post/asciidoc-for-book-writing/

[riperoni]

So, LaTeX was not considered?

It is nicely editable in text editors, versionable with git, has CLI tools, has templates that can be used as-is or customized to the gills.

To top it off, it has 30 years of development and packages at its dispsosal that can solve almost every need that arises.

[bradknowles → riperoni]

For the kind of writing I've done, I have not seen LaTex offer anything that I could not get in easier ways that worked better for me.

I've never seen LaTex offer anything of value to me. So, no -- I would not use it.

[rjsw → riperoni]

People don't like LaTeX.

I work on a family of ISO standards. Started off using LaTeX 30 years ago, then Microsoft Word, currenly using a custom XML workflow, starting to transition to AsciiDoc+AsciiMath.

[jakobov]

I tried AsciiDoc and found it rather limited. LaTex is the way to go for a serious technical book.

I wrote Code Is for Humans (codeisforhumans.com) using LaTex and it worked well. Now it's a bestseller on Amazon :)