Asciidoc Book Editor based on JavaFX 8

Asciidoc FX is a book / document editor to build PDF, Epub, Mobi and HTML books, documents and slides. AsciidocFX is also a winner of Duke’s Choice Award 2015.

Figure 1. AsciidocFX - Duke’s Choice Award 2015 winner

Table of Contents

• Features
• Pseudo Terminal Emulator
• How to Install AsciidocFX
  • Install on Linux
  • Install on Windows
  • Install on Mac
  • Installation Notes
• A Quick Dive
• PlantUML Extension
• ditaa Extension
• MathJax Extension
• Tex output
• MathML output
• Filesystem Tree Extension
• Filesystem Tree output
• Filesystem Tree output (new)
• JavaFX Charts Extension
  • Pie Chart
  • Area Chart
• How to Build AsciidocFX
• Books Written with AsciidocFX
• Slides (Reveal.js and Deck.js)
• Used Technologies
• AsciidocFX Configuration
• Some Shortcuts
• Known Issues
• Changelog
• Support
• Contributors
• Backers
• Sponsors

Features

• Real-Time Preview

• Multi-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux)

• Creating Asciidoc Books

• Creating Markdown Books

• Creating PDF, HTML, Epub, Mobi, Docbook

• Epub Viewer

• External Browser Support

• Table Generator

• MathJax Extension

• PlantUML Extension

• ditaa Extension

• Filesystem Tree Extension

• JavaFX Charts Extension

• Source Code Highlighter

• Reveal.js Converter

• Deck.js Converter

• Nashorn support

• Pseudo Terminal Emulator

• Themeing (Dark & White) _New _

Pseudo Terminal Emulator

How to Install AsciidocFX

There are a number of operating systems that AsciidocFX supports.

Note	The latest releases are available from the Github releases page.

Supported Operating Systems and Builds shows the list of available builds with links for reference. If you are looking for the very latest version, visit the link in the note above to be guaranteed of downloading the latest and greatest version of AsciidocFX.

Table 1. Supported Operating Systems and Builds

OS	JRE included?	Filename
Mac	Yes	AsciidocFX_Mac.dmg
Windows	Yes	AsciidocFX_Windows.exe
	Yes	AsciidocFX_Windows.zip
	No	AsciidocFX_Windows_No_JRE.exe
	No	AsciidocFX_Windows_No_JRE.zip
Linux	Yes	AsciidocFX_Linux.tar.gz
	No	AsciidocFX_Linux_No_JRE.tar.gz

Install on Linux

After the download is completed, untar the package in your preferred directory.

$ sh AsciidocFX

Install on Windows

Download executable/installer and run it.

Install on Mac

Download the .dmg and run it.

or

Use Homebrew-cask to install it with one command: brew cask install asciidocfx

Installation Notes

There are two AsciidocFX package flavors, you can download it with JRE 8 out-of-box or if you have already installed JRE 8 (Update 40 or above), you can download *No_JRE builds

Graphviz

PlantUML extension needs Graphviz, if you will use it, then install it:

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install graphviz

Mac OS X

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install graphviz

Windows

http://www.graphviz.org/pub/graphviz/stable/windows/graphviz-2.38.msi

Microsoft Core Fonts

You must install Microsoft Core Fonts on Linux OSes also.

Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Fedora

If you are using Fedora, you need to install the RPM provided from this URL: mscorefonts2

KindleGen

You must install KindleGen, If you need to convert your documents into Mobi files. Once you specify the location of KindleGen executable, Mobi Service provided by AFX will be available.

A Quick Dive

Video - Writing Books with Asciidoc FX

PlantUML Extension

You can fulfill your UML needs with AsciidocFX. It supports PlantUML. AsciidocFX converts this textual UML elements as png or svg image.

PlantUML is a component that allows to quickly write :

• Sequence diagram,

• Usecase diagram,

• Class diagram,

• Activity diagram, (here is the new syntax),

• Component diagram,

• State diagram,

• Object diagram.

• wireframe graphical interface

.UML Diagram Example
[uml,file="uml-example.png"]
--
abstract class AbstractList
abstract AbstractCollection
interface List
interface Collection

List <|-- AbstractList
Collection <|-- AbstractCollection

Collection <|- List
AbstractCollection <|- AbstractList
AbstractList <|-- ArrayList

class ArrayList {
  Object[] elementData
  size()
}

enum TimeUnit {
  DAYS
  HOURS
  MINUTES
}

annotation SuppressWarnings
--

Figure 2. UML example output

Note	In some UML elements, PlantUML needs to work with Graphviz. Because of this, you should install Graphviz manually for your platform. After installing Graphviz, you should set GRAPHVIZ_DOT environment variable to dot executable in Graphviz.

ditaa Extension

AsciidocFX supports ditaa diagrams.

ditaa is a component that converts diagrams drawn in ascii art to bitmap graphics.

.ditaa Diagram Example
[ditaa,file="images/ditaa-example.png"]
--
    +--------+   +-------+    +-------+
    |        |---+ ditaa +--->|       |
    |  Text  |   +-------+    |diagram|
    |Document|   |!magic!|    |       |
    |     {d}|   |       |    |       |
    +---+----+   +-------+    +-------+
        :                         ^
        |       Lots of work      |
        +-------------------------+
--

MathJax Extension

MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all browsers.

You can use Tex or MathML languages for describing mathematical formulas in AsciidocFX. AsciidocFX converts this textual formulas as png or svg image.

For Example (Tex)

[math,file="tex-formula.png"]
--
\begin{align}
\dot{x} & = \sigma(y-x) \\
\dot{y} & = \rho x - y - xz \\
\dot{z} & = -\beta z + xyp
\end{align}
--

Tex output

For Example (MathML)

[math,file="mathml-formula.png"]
--
<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block">
  <mi>x</mi>
  <mo>=</mo>
  <mrow>
    <mfrac>
      <mrow>
        <mo>&#x2212;</mo>
        <mi>b</mi>
        <mo>&#xB1;</mo>
        <msqrt>
          <msup>
            <mi>b</mi>
            <mn>2</mn>
          </msup>
          <mo>&#x2212;</mo>
          <mn>4</mn>
          <mi>a</mi>
          <mi>c</mi>
        </msqrt>
      </mrow>
      <mrow>
        <mn>2</mn>
        <mi>a</mi>
      </mrow>
    </mfrac>
  </mrow>
  <mtext>.</mtext>
</math>
--

MathML output

Filesystem Tree Extension

You can represent filesystem tree in following tree block. There is two style of FS tree.

[tree,file="tree-view.png"]
--
#src
##main
###java
####com
#####kodcu
######App.java
###resources
####css
#####style.css
####js
#####script.js
####images
#####image.png
--

Filesystem Tree output

When you drag and drop a folder to editor, AFX will generate this like tree automatically.

[tree,file="tree-view-new.png"]
--
root
|-- photos
|   |-- camp.gif
|   |-- festival.png
|   `-- balloon.jpg
|-- videos
|   |-- car-video.avi
|   |-- dance.mp4
|   |-- dance01.mpg
|   |-- another video.divx
|   `-- school videos
|       `-- firstday.flv
|-- documents
|   |-- jsfile.js
|   |-- powerpoint.ppt
|   |-- chapter-01.asc
|   |-- archive-db.zip
|   |-- .gitignore
|   |-- README
|   `-- configuration.conf
`-- etc.
--

Filesystem Tree output (new)

JavaFX Charts Extension

JavaFX has 8 kind of Chart component and AsciidocFX supports all of them.

Pie Chart

[chart,pie,file="secim-2014-pie.png",opt="title=2014 YEREL SEÇİM SONUÇLARI"]
--
AKP,  45.6, orange
CHP,  27.8,red
MHP,  15.2
BDP,  4.2
SP,  2
--

---

chart::pie[data-uri="pie.csv",file="secim-2014-pie-csv.png"]

Area Chart

[chart,area,file="area-chart.png"]
--
//April
1,  4
3,  10
6,  15
9,  8
12, 5

//May
1,  20
3,  15
6,  13
9,  12
12, 14
--

---

chart::area[data-uri="area.csv",file="area-chart-csv.png"]

For other charts and available options, look at Chart extension wiki page!

How to Build AsciidocFX

1. Firstly, install JDK 8

2. Download Apache Maven and set /bin directory to environment variables

3. Enter AsciidocFX directory and run $ mvn clean install

4. Follow to target/appassembler/bin directory and you will see asciidocfx.sh and asciidocfx.bat

Note	We are generating builts with Travis-CI automatically. NOTE: All builds x64 based. If you want to use in x86 systems, build AsciidocFX yourself.

Books Written with AsciidocFX

Java 8 Ebook

• Github

• ePub + Kindle + PDF

AspectJ Ebook

• Github

• ePub + Kindle + PDF

Mastering Cloudforms Automation

• Older version on GitHub and GitBook

• ePub + Kindle + PDF

Slides (Reveal.js and Deck.js)

AsciidocFX has a built-in template converter for Reveal.js and Deck.js. To getting start with slide authoring, you can just follow New › Slide menu.

Figure 3. New › Slide

After that AFX will prompt you a freespace directory name and "OK" you will see the slide demo.

Figure 4. Slide demo

You can easily switch between reveal.js and deck.js by changing the comment below. Also, you can configure default settings by editing _settings_reveal.adoc and include::_settings_deck.adoc.

include::_settings_reveal.adoc[]

// include::_settings_deck.adoc[]

Used Technologies

AsciidocFX uses Java, JavaScript and XML related technologies.

• Java FX 8

• Asciidoctor.js

• Spring Boot

• Spring WebSocket

• Docbook

• Apache Fop

• Saxon 6.5

• Ace editor

• Nashorn

AsciidocFX Configuration

You can configurate AsciidocFX with Settings page (Press Ctrl+F4). The all configs located in [Install_Dir]/conf folder.

Some Shortcuts

AFX supports this ace shortcuts https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/wiki/Default-Keyboard-Shortcuts and custom shortcuts listed below . If you suggest us any shortcut request, we can implement it.

Shortcut	Detail
Ctrl+F4	Show settings
Ctrl+V	Converts and pastes selection
Ctrl+Shift+V	Pastes selection
tblx,y+Tab	Generates asciidoc table (x=row,y=column)
tblx.y+Tab	Generates asciidoc table (x=row,y=column)
src+Tab	Generates asciidoc source block (default lang: java)
src.lang+Tab	Generates asciidoc source block by lang
src,lang+Tab	Generates asciidoc source block by lang
img+Tab	Generates image section
book+Tab	Generates book header section
article+Tab	Generates article header section
uml+Tab	Generates UML block
math+Tab	Generates Math block
tree+Tab	Generates Tree block
quote+Tab	Generates Quote block
Ctrl+B	Bolds selection
Ctrl+F	Find Text
Ctrl+F , Ctrl+F	Find and Replace Text
Ctrl+I	Italices selection
Ctrl+U	Underlines selection
Ctrl+H	Highlights selection
Ctrl+D	Duplicates selection
Ctrl+L	Displays line numbers
Ctrl+X	Removes current line
Ctrl+N	Creates new empty doc
Ctrl+M	Maximizes the tab pane
Ctrl+S	Saves current doc
Ctrl+W	Saves and closes current doc
Ctrl+Shift+C	Surrounds backtick `` selection
Ctrl+Mouse_Scroll_Up	Zoom in
Ctrl+Mouse_Scroll_Down	Zoom out
F12	Opens Firebug Lite (Requires Internet Connection)

Known Issues

PDF output shows all text as ####

On Linux platforms you can face with this issue. For the getting around for the issue you need to install Microsoft Core Fonts to your platform. How to install [microsoft-core-fonts]

Mac QWERTY Keyboard Bug

There is a bug in JavaFX which makes all keyboards on a Mac behave as "QWERTY". This means, that on a German "QWERTZ" layout the shortcuts for undo and redo are swapped.

Text Artifacts (Rainbowing) on Text

If you are being distracted by rainbow text artifacts on text, you can work around the issue by passing some VM options in [Install_Dir]/AsciidocFX.vmoptions, as shared in this RichTextFX bug.

1. Open AsciidocFX.vmoptions.

2. Add -Dprism.text=t2k and -Dprism.lcdtext=false to the file.

3. Save and close.

4. Launch AsciidocFX

Changelog

To see what has changed in recent versions of AsciidocFX, see the CHANGELOG

Support

Support AsciidocFX with pull requests or open an issue for bug & feature requests. You can make discussions in mail group or in the chat room at Gitter.im.

Contributors

Thank you to all the people who have already contributed to AsciidocFX!

Backers

Thank you to all our backers! [Become a backer]

Sponsors

Thank you to all our sponsors! (please ask your company to also support this open source project by becoming a sponsor)