ViewRendered 3 Now Renders Asciidoc (with limitations)

[Thomas Passin]

I have been upgrading vr3 to render asciidoc nodes, mostly because of Kevin's interest.  The work is not finished, but at least vr3 will render a single node of asciidoc. Because it is still in progress I haven't issued a PR.  But you can get it from my github repo -

https://github.com/tbpassin/leo-editor

The new version is in the devel branch.  It is version v3.0b10.

To render asciidoc, you need to have an asciidoc processor installed, and the two that should work are asciidoc (from https://asciidoc.org/index.html, and sometimes available as an installable package on Linux), and asciidoc3 (from pypi)  I haven't been able to get asciidoc3 to work on my Windows machine, so I recommend the former.

The asciidoc processor needs to be available on the system path so that vr3 can find its executable file (which could be a batch file launcher).  For asciidoc, which does not install into Python's site-packages, you can create a new Leo setting to point to the asciidoc directory -

@string vr3-asciidoc-path = <path-to-asciidoc-directory>

Vr3 will run asciidoc if it finds it, otherwise it will try for asciidoc3.  More information is in the Help section (Plugins/viewrendered3/about in the Leo menus).

Please report any serious problems here.

[Edward K. Ream]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 5:34 PM Thomas Passin <tbp1...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have been upgrading vr3 to render asciidoc nodes, mostly because of Kevin's interest.  The work is not finished, but at least vr3 will render a single node of asciidoc. Because it is still in progress I haven't issued a PR.  But you can get it from my github repo -

https://github.com/tbpassin/leo-editor

The new version is in the devel branch.  It is version v3.0b10.

Thanks for this work!

Edward

[k-hen]

This is so awesome - thank you!  :-D

[Thomas Passin]

I've moved this work to a new branch on my repo - the vr3-asciidoc branch.  It's at

https://github.com/tbpassin/leo-editor/tree/vr3-asciidoc

Please get vr3 from there if you want to try the latest efforts.