AsciiDoc
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
2warn against
Nov 22, 2025first mention
Aug 23, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I moved to asciidoc”
switched from Org modeon “What's in a PowerPoint File?”
“Why not Asciidoc? It works well with AI so far.”
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“Asciidoc forever baby. Write actual books in it.”
Caveats and dissent
“But Asciidoc has unneccessary complexity and ambiguity, and the results are often surprising.”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- What's in a PowerPoint File? 1 mention
- Typst 0.15.0 1 mention
- Doclang-Project/Doclang 1 mention
- Why the heck are we still using Markdown? 1 mention
- Markdown is holding you back 1 mention
Also written as Asciidoc. Data: asciidoc.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“I moved to asciidoc”
“But Asciidoc has unneccessary complexity and ambiguity, and the results are often surprising.”
“Why not Asciidoc? It works well with AI so far.”
“Asciidoc forever baby. Write actual books in it.”
Markdown is the minimum viable product. It’s easy to learn and still readable if not rendered in an alternate format. It’s great. For making PDFs, I’ve recently moved from AsciiDoc to Typst. I couldn’t find a good way to get AsciiDoc to make accessible PDFs, and I found myself struggling to control the output. Typst solves all of AsciiDoc’s problems for me. But in the end, no markup language will make you write bette