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How to use tabs in AsciiDoc

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While writing a tutorial, I just came across the need to target two different user groups - windows and linux users. I wanted to write some shell commands a...

AsciiDoc Image Size

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When you work with several output formats for your doucments, it can be quite hard to get the size of oyur images right. Most of the time, you will use la...

Do more with Slides

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As an architect, you often have to present your ideas and architecture to an audience. Powerpoint might seem to be a perfect fit for that, but people also w...

Turn your Document into an Audio-Book

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Last blog post showed you how to convert your asciidoc into .docx via docbook. Pandoc can do more than that. It has a lot of target format under the hood....

Render Asciidoc to docx (MS Word)

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docToolchain is currently able to render your documents as HTML and PDF. But sometimes you just need a different format. The best solution I’ve found ...

Enterprise Asciidoctor

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Last time I wrote about how to configure Gradle to run behind a proxy with a local binary repository. First, I have to say that I love twitter, because ...

Automated Quality-Checks

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Now that docToolchain handles your docs like your code, the next logical step is to add some automated tests. That’s where htmlSanityCheck, a projec...

Simple AsciiDoc Build with Maven

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Last time we created a Gradle project to render an AsciiDoc file. But what if you can’t use Gradle but have to use Maven? Let’s add a pom.xm...

Simple AsciiDoc Build with Gradle

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So I told you to use AsciiDoc to write technical documents because of all the great features. Today I want to show you how to unleash the power and get ...

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Automated Quality-Checks

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Now that docToolchain handles your docs like your code, the next logical step is to add some automated tests. That’s where htmlSanityCheck, a projec...

Simple AsciiDoc Build with Maven

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Last time we created a Gradle project to render an AsciiDoc file. But what if you can’t use Gradle but have to use Maven? Let’s add a pom.xm...

Simple AsciiDoc Build with Gradle

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So I told you to use AsciiDoc to write technical documents because of all the great features. Today I want to show you how to unleash the power and get ...

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gradle

Colorful Gradle

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Did you ever whished to change the color of your gradle log output? Maybe to highlight something? AFAIK, Gradle has no support for colors out of the box, ...

Enterprise Asciidoctor

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Last time I wrote about how to configure Gradle to run behind a proxy with a local binary repository. First, I have to say that I love twitter, because ...

Behind the great Firewall

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The open internet is a great place to code, but sometimes you are sitting behind a great firewall in a corporate environment. Your are not allowed to just...

Handle Dependency Updates the easy Way

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Every developer knows this problem - you work on a project and over time new versions of the configured dependencies are released. Sometimes it is even not ...

Simple AsciiDoc Build with Gradle

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So I told you to use AsciiDoc to write technical documents because of all the great features. Today I want to show you how to unleash the power and get ...

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plantuml

plantUML revisited

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Two days ago, a plantUML tweet caught my attention: Someone is willing to pay for a plantUML diagram. That’s something I haven’t seen before...

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maven

Simple AsciiDoc Build with Maven

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Last time we created a Gradle project to render an AsciiDoc file. But what if you can’t use Gradle but have to use Maven? Let’s add a pom.xm...

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sparx

Sparxling Wine

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In order to optimize docToolchain for Mac and Linux, I wanted to give Sparx Enterprise Architect a try on a *nix environment. I once already tried to inst...

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arc42 by Example

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The second edition of arc42 by Example has just been released. The new edition contains as new example the arc42 architecture of docToolchain! We just ...

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HtmlSanityCheck at OOP conference

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For the second time, we were happy to present the Docs-as-Code approach to a broad audience of experts with a real example. HtmlSanityCheck is not only a ce...

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Docs-as-Code at JAX conference

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Come and visit my talk at the JAX conference in Mainz! Laut mehrerer Umfragen ist fehlende #Dokumentation ein großes Hindernis für den Einsatz von #OpenS...

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