Asciidoctor-pdf no parsing

Question

First, thank you for this great resource. Beautiful pdf files it creates.

I have a bunch of text files with all kinds of text of which some are jebrish. Some text lines start with a dot, etc.

Asciidoctor-pdf barfs on many pages correctly so. I've spend days trying to clean the text files with sed but its a no end game.

Is there a way to tell Asciidoctor-pdf to simply convert the text document to pdf without parsing it with Asciidoctor-pdf command options?

Answer 1

You could create a new AsciiDoc file where you include the text files using the include macro. If you want the converter to ignore the syntax you should use a passthrough block. If you want to display a fileA.txt and fileB.txt inside an allfiles.adoc it could look like this:

allfiles.adoc

= all files

== content of fileA.txt

++++
include::fileA.txt[]
++++

== content of fileB.txt

++++
include::fileB.txt[]
++++