Asciidoctor User Manual

The default doctype. In DocBook, includes the appendix, abstract, bibliography, glossary, and index sections.

Builds on the article doctype with the additional ability to use a top-level title as part titles, includes the appendix, dedication, preface, bibliography, glossary, index, and colophon. There’s also the concept of a multi-part book, but the distinction from a regular book is determined by the content. A book only has chapters and special sections, whereas a multi-part book is divided by parts that each contain one or more chapters or special sections.

Used for producing a roff or HTML-formatted man page (short for manual page) for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. This doctype instructs the parser to recognize a special document header and section naming conventions for organizing the AsciiDoc content as a manual page. Refer to Man Pages for details on how to compose AsciiDoc for this purpose.

Asciidoctor only. There may be cases when you only want to apply inline AsciiDoc formatting to input text without wrapping it in a block element. For example, in the Asciidoclet project (AsciiDoc in Javadoc), only the inline formatting is needed for the text in Javadoc tags.