Evolving real-world AsciiDoc into a specification and how it will help the ecosystem

Lots of open-source projects use documentation as code to collaborate on web sites and documentation. But how do you integrate the different parts of a documentation pipeline to provide a great contributor and user experience? AsciiDoc is a popular plain text markup language for writing technical content, and lots of open-source projects use it. It’s loved for its rich features and its ability to modularize and reuse content. The AsciiDoc Working Group at the Eclipse Foundation has recently published the AsciiDoc Language documentation, and it is continuing to work on the AsciiDoc Language Specification that is the foundation to define standard parsing rules for the language. This talk showcases different AsciiDoc tools in real-world project documentation pipelines to show what is possible today when you author, verify, convert, and publish content. It also highlights what challenges will be solved with the evolving AsciiDoc Language Specification.