Evolving Real-World AsciiDoc into a Specification and How It Will Help the Ecosystem

Learn about AsciiDoc's evolution and standardization in this 32-minute conference talk from the Eclipse Foundation. Explore how open-source projects leverage documentation as code for collaborative web content and documentation creation. Discover AsciiDoc's capabilities as a plain text markup language for technical writing, including its rich features and content modularization capabilities. Gain insights into the AsciiDoc Working Group's recent publication of the AsciiDoc Language documentation and their ongoing work on the Language Specification. Examine real-world examples of AsciiDoc tools in documentation pipelines, understanding current possibilities for authoring, verifying, converting, and publishing content. Understand the challenges that the evolving AsciiDoc Language Specification aims to address and its impact on establishing standard parsing rules for the language.