Re: [asciidoc-lang-dev] Extension hooks in Asciidoc

[Lex Trotman <exciidoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 15:51, David Jencks <david.a.jencks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just one question tonight…. what’s an ‘input macro’?  Someone told me about a common LaTex usage and I wrote https://gitlab.com/djencks/asciidoctor-template… Is that the same thing?

Yes, that sort of thing, but perhaps with a defined syntax, eg 

define::some_name[parameter_list]

.

some contents

.

enddefine::[]

some_name::[parameters]

and not necessarily just a single block.

Also questions like use of document attributes (but not ones that are parameters) in the body, are they substituted in the define or after substitution (as yours are) or not allowed (my preference to avoid users complaining about the choice of define or substitution and issues about attributes with the same name being innocently used in the document with no intention of the define using it).

Cheers

Lex

 

thanks!

David Jencks