Asciidoctor is a fast text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook 5 (or 4.5) and other formats.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted

AsciiDoc is described as 'Text processor for AsciiDoc format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc which is human readable text format, similar to Markdown format, but with more complex syntax usage (but not so complex like LaTeX)' and is a Code Editor in the news & books category. There are six alternatives to AsciiDoc for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best AsciiDoc alternative is Asciidoctor, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like AsciiDoc are txt2tags, PHP Markdown, Docutils and MarkMyWords.
Asciidoctor is a fast text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook 5 (or 4.5) and other formats.

It reads a text file with minimal markup such as bold and //italic// and converts it to the following formats (among others):

Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML, LaTeX, man-pages, open-document or XML. It includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.
