                             AsciiDoc Installation

   version 8.3.1, 14 December 2008

   Note: The current version of AsciiDoc requires Python 2.4 or newer to
   run. If you don't already have an up-to-date version of Python
   installed it can be downloaded from the official Python website
   [1]http://www.python.org/.

   The latest AsciiDoc downloads can be found on the AsciiDoc website
   [2]http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/downloads.html and at the
   SourceForge [3]http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/.
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1. Prepackaged AsciiDoc installation

   The AsciiDoc [4]downloads page lists AsciiDoc packages for various
   Linux distributions.
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2. Distribution tarball installation

   If your flavor or UNIX or Linux does not have a packaged AsciiDoc
   distribution or if you prefer to install the latest AsciiDoc version
   from source use the configure shell script in the tarball root
   directory.

   The autoconf(1) generated configure script creates a make file that is
   tailored for your system. To install:
  $ tar -xzf asciidoc-8.3.1.tar.gz
  $ cd asciidoc-8.3.1
  $ ./configure
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

   To install the documentation:
  $ sudo make docs

   To uninstall AsciiDoc:
  $ sudo make uninstall

   If Vim is installed on your system the AsciiDoc Vim syntax highlighter
   and filetype detection scripts will be install in the global Vim
   configuration file directory (asciidoc.vim in the syntax directory and
   asciidoc_filetype.vim in the ftdetect directory).
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3. Microsoft Windows installation

   To install the zip formatted distribution just unzip the contents to a
   new folder:
  $ mkdir asciidoc
  $ cd asciidoc
  $ unzip ../asciidoc-8.3.1.zip
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4. Testing your installation

   Test out asciidoc by changing to the AsciiDoc application directory and
   convert the User Guide document (./doc/asciidoc.txt) to XHTML
   (./doc/asciidoc.html):
  $ asciidoc doc/asciidoc.txt

   Note: Windows users will need to execute the asciidoc.py script
   directly or create a suitable asciidoc.bat file.
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   Version 8.3.1
   Last updated 2008-12-13 10:52:07 NZDT

References

   1. http://www.python.org/
   2. http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/downloads.html
   3. http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/
   4. http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/downloads.html
