---
title: AsciiDoc
tags: []
up: "[[markup-language]]"
---
# AsciiDoc

AsciiDoc is a human-readable [[markup-language]].

AsciiDoc is currently defined only informally,
by its documentation under
[Asciidoctor](https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/),
AsciiDoc's official renderer.

Work on [AsciiDoc's formal specification](https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/asciidoc.asciidoc-lang)
has been ongoing for years,
and with less than ten commits per month on average
that work has been worryingly slow.