HTML formatting in .adoc leads to Asciidoctor error message when generating PDF
When executing asciidoctor to generate a PDF document like this
cmd /c asciidoctor-pdf -r asciidoctor-diagram -a pdf-themesdir=%s -a pdf-theme=%s -a pdf-fontsdir=%s %s.adoc
from an .adoc file that contains HTML code (like bold formatting <b>
):
+++Some VI Description+++
+++_____+++
+++Created using Delacor QMH Event Scripter 4.2.0.87.+++
+++<b>Note:</b> This VI was modified by the <b>Validate DQMH Module</b> tool to return an error if the reply times out.+++
then asciidoctor returns this standard error text:
asciidoctor: ERROR: failed to parse formatted text:
(followed by the above passage)
Here's a screenshot visualising this: