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Cool. I'm going to look into this :D

I am going to write my Master Thesis in AsciiDoc. It's about modular work-space awareness features in single page applications. The proof of concept app is a online AsciiDoc editor with live-preview and eBook/PDF generation, where I want to write my thesis in.



Very nice! Since writing a thesis is a very special task I think it'd be great to have such a app be geared towards that purpose. In addition to the features I now know I needed, I feel like I've gathered quite some experience on how to achieve control, reproducibility and flexibility using AsciiDoc but I didn't have the chance to get it out of my head and written down :-) There are a few pitfalls with the asciidoc and dblatex chain which you only learn to navigate when you're in the middle of writing the thesis (floating images, word count, bibliography, organization etc.). The framework/workflow I've set up considers most of them already and has been a huge timesaver and ease of mind for me. You can see some of the underlying ideas went into the Makefile I shared and you could recycle/use them to get a head start on your thesis/project. I'd definitely be happy to collaborate with you and share all my (MIT-licensed) experience :-) Feel free to shoot me an e-mail, I'm certain you'll find me through a quick google inquiry [1] ;-)

[1] http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lbnl+huck




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