Asciidoctor
:gem: A fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain, written in Ruby, for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML 5, DocBook 5, and other formats. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
81/100
- Activity 94
- Release rhythm 53
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license no_readme
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 5.0
- age_days: 5206
- days_rel: 314
- days_push: 38
- n_releases_24m: 3
Adoption not part of the score
5208 stars · 839 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Asciidoctor is a fast, open source Ruby-based text processor and publishing toolchain that parses AsciiDoc content into a document model and converts it to HTML 5, DocBook 5, man pages, and, via add-on converters, PDF and EPUB 3. It offers both a CLI and an API, with ecosystem runtimes like AsciidoctorJ (JVM) and Asciidoctor.js (JavaScript) and extensions for diagrams, reveal.js, and build tool integrations.
Use cases
- convert asciidoc to html
- generate pdf documentation from asciidoc
- write technical documentation in plain text
- convert asciidoc to docbook
- publish man pages from asciidoc source
- render asciidoc in a static site generator
- process asciidoc from java or javascript
When to choose
- you want a mature, fast AsciiDoc processor with multi-format output (HTML, DocBook, PDF, EPUB)
- you need a CLI and API plus JVM/JavaScript runtimes for the same markup
- you're authoring long-form technical docs, books, or man pages in plain text
When to avoid
- your team only writes simple Markdown and doesn't need AsciiDoc's advanced features
- you need WYSIWYG editing rather than a text-based markup pipeline
- you require a non-Ruby/JVM/JS runtime without an available integration
Facets
library · maturity stable
parser templating documentation cli pdf documentation developer-tools web-development pdf ruby jvm cli cross-platform asciidoc text-processor publishing-toolchain docbook html5 manpage epub rubygem technical-writing nodejs
6 sources
- homepage: https://asciidoctor.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 632c8e28cbf1
- site_page: https://asciidoctor.org/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · fbb93c88964f
- site_page: https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-writers-guide · fetched 2026-08-29 · d480750bd110
- site_page: https://docs.asciidoctor.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · d15b90f685a0
- site_page: https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor/latest · fetched 2026-08-29 · e8f9880f37a5
- site_page: https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest · fetched 2026-08-29 · 19bcb019294c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| asciidoctor/asciidoctor | main | 81 |
| asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf | plugin | 100 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="asciidoctor/asciidoctor")
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