included table data files? Use the {include:} system attribute instead of the include::[] macro (the former is not expanded until after the table data has been parsed into cells, whereas the latter is included before the table is processed. 44. How can I preserve paragraph line boundaries? Apply the The verse paragraph style, the rendered text preserves line boundaries and is useful for lyrics and poems. For example: If you are generating DocBook then a more flexible approach is to create a docinfo file containing a DocBook authorgroup element (search the User Guide for docinfo for more details). 51. How can I selectively disable a quoted text substitution? Omitting the tag name will disable quoting. For example, if you don't want superscripts or subscripts then put the following in a custom configuration file or edit the global asciidoc.conf configuration file: [quotes] ^= ~= Alternatively you can set the configuration entries from within your document, the above examples are equivalent to: :quotes.^: :quotes.~: 52. How can I customize the {localdate} format? The default format for the {localdate} attribute is the ISO 8601 yyyy-mm-dd format. You can change this format by explicitly setting the {localdate} attribute. For example by setting it using the asciidoc(1) -a command-line option: asciidoc -a localdate=`date +%d-%m-%Y` mydoc.txt You could also set it by adding an Attribute Entry to your source document, for example: :localdate: {sys: date +%Y-%m-%d} 53. Where can I find examples of commands used to build output documents? The User Guide has some. You could