A summary of the most commonly used markup. For a complete reference see the AsciiDoc User Guide.

Text formatting

*bold text*                 (boldface font)
_emphasized text_           (normally italics)
'emphasized text'
+monospaced text+           (proportional font)
`monospaced text`           (inline literal passthrough)

Document links

[[id]]                      (define link target)
<<id,caption>>              (link to target id)
link:filename#id[caption]   (link to external HTML file)

URLs

Use normal URL and email addess syntax or:
http:address[caption]       (link to web page)
mailto:address[caption]     (link to mail recipient)

Images

image:filename[caption]     (inline image)
image::filename[caption]    (block image)

Document header

The Document Title
==================
author <email>
revision, date

author, email, revision and date are optional.

Section title underlines

Underlined:
Level 0                     (document title)
=======
Level 1
-------
Level 2
~~~~~~~
Level 3
^^^^^^^
Level 4                     (bottom level)
+++++++
Single line:
= Level 0 =                 (document title)
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====         (bottom level)

Paragraphs

A normal paragraph. (styles: literal,verse,quote,listing, NOTE,TIP,WARNING,IMPORTANT,CAUTION) An indented literal paragraph.

Delimited blocks

Delimiters must begin at left margin.

-------------------         (styles: source,music,graphviz)
listing block
-------------------
...................         (styles: listing,verse)
literal block
...................
*******************
sidebar block
*******************
[style, author, cite]
___________________         (styles: quote,verse)
quote block
___________________
===================         (styles: NOTE,TIP,WARNING,
example block                        IMPORTANT,CAUTION)
===================
///////////////////
comment block
///////////////////
+++++++++++++++++++         (styles: pass,asciimath,latexmath)
passthrough block
+++++++++++++++++++
[style]                     (styles: abstract,partintro)
--
open block
--

More block elements

[attributes list]
.Block title
// Comment line
include::filename[]

Tables

.An example table
[width="40%",cols="^,2m",frame="topbot",options="header,footer"]
|======================
|Column 1 |Column 2
|1        |Item 1
|2        |Item 2
|3        |Item 3
|6        |Three items
|======================
Common attributes:
grid:    none,cols,rows,all
frame:   topbot,none,sides,all
options: header,footer
format:  psv,csv,dsv
valign:  top,bottom,middle
width:   1%..100%
cols:    colspec[,colspec,...]
colspec:    [multiplier*][align][width][style]
multiplier: 1...
width:      1... or 1%...100%
align:      [horiz][.vert]
             horiz: < (left), ^ (center), > (right)
             vert:  < (top),  ^ (middle), > (bottom)
style:      d[efault], e[mphasis], m[onospaced], a[sciidoc],
            s[trong], l[iteral], v[erse], h[eader]
cell:       [cellspec]|data
cellspec:   [span*|+][align][style]
span:       [colspan][.rowspan]
             colspan: 1...
             rowspan: 1...

Bulleted lists

  • item text

    • item text

      • item text

        • item text

          • item text

            • item text 

              (styles: callout,bibliography)

Numbered lists

  1. arabic (decimal) numbering

    1. loweralpha numbering

      1. upperalpha numbering

        1. lowerroman numbering

          1. upperroman numbering

            1. arabic (decimal) numbering

              1. loweralpha numbering

                1. lowerroman numbering

                  1. upperalpha numbering

                    1. upperroman numbering 

                      (styles: arabic,loweralpha,upperalpha,lowerroman,upperroman)

Labeled lists

label

item text

label

item text

label

item text

label

item text 

(styles: horizontal,vertical,glossary,qanda,bibliograpy)

More inline elements

footnote:[footnote text]    (document footnote)