When comparing MoinMoin vs AsciiDoc, the Slant community recommends AsciiDoc for most people. In the question“What are the best markup languages?” AsciiDoc is ranked 4th while MoinMoin is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose AsciiDoc is:
The formatting of Asciidoc is standardized so there is only one 'flavor' unlike in Markdown. The definitive user guide is [here](http://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-writers-guide/).
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Pros
Pro Straightforward installation
You'll need Apache and Python set up. To install MoinMoin itself download the archive, open it and run setup.py from the command line.
Pro Portable version
There's a Portable version of MoinMoin that can be used without having to install it.
Pro Users can create personal bookmarks
Pro Functionality can be extended with plugins
A selection of plugins is available at MoinMoinExtensions.
Pro Offline sync
Pro Global recent changes RSS feed
Pro Integrates with Xapian to allow searching through files
Xapian integration will allow searching through PDF, OpenOffice, Word, etc attachments.
Pro Full-text search
Pro Reasonable selection of themes
A few dozen themes are available for MoinMoin on the ThemeMarket, allowing you to quickly change the look and feel of the wiki.
Pro Version control
MoinMoin allows viewing past revisions of pages.
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under GPL v2.
Pro Standardized format
The formatting of Asciidoc is standardized so there is only one 'flavor' unlike in Markdown. The definitive user guide is here.
Pro Human-readable
Simple, easy-to-read style similar to Markdown. Designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form.
Pro Technical Documentation
The DocBook format which Asciidoctor can convert to was originally developed with the creation of computer books in mind and thus has a rich array of formatting options which are powerful enough to manage the formatting of lengthy technical books.
Pro Supported by GitHub and GitLab
Both GitHub and GitLab support AsciiDoc syntax in repositories, wikis and Gists/Snippets (powered by the Asciidoctor Ruby gem).
Pro It's structured
Cleanly transforms to DocBook and HTML5.
Pro Supports semantic markup
Pro Native support for colored output
AsciiDoc has offered the ability to define both the color of any text output as well as its background, almost since its inception. It accepts several standard chromatic notations for them, too, including hexadecimal and decimal RGB values, decimal HSL and named CSS.
Pro Embedded metadata
The AsciiDoc standard defines a number of metadata values which can be defined inside a document primarily for contextual purposes that aren't rendered in its standard output such as author, date, license, document title and version, etc. These can be especially useful when searching through a large number of files/documents or documenting the evolution of one as part of a larger codebase.
Pro Shorter, more concise than Markdown
Pro Good tool support
There are plugins to support editing AsciiDoc for many editors/IDEs.
Cons
Con Attachment history isn't tracked
While it supports attachments, if an attachment is deleted, it's gone.
Con Can't limit attachment size
There's no way to set a limit on attachment sizes.
Con Not as popular/widely used as Markdown
The Asciidoc format is not as popular/widely used as Markdown. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Asciidoc is used for some of the following projects:
- O'Reilly and Maker Press
- NFJS, the magazine
- other examples
Con Limited output options
Asciidoctor can only convert directly to HTML or DocBook. However, you can always use another converter such as pandoc to convert from one of the output formats to another format.