to include charts in AsciiDoc documents? There are a number of programs available that generate presentation charts from textual specification, for example Pychart is a library for writing chart scripts in Python. Here's an example from the Pychart documentation: If you have included the custom CSS in a separate stylesheet you will need to specify the stylesheet file name (along with the default docbook-xsl.css stylesheet file name) with the html.stylesheet XSL parameter. If you are using a2x(1) use the --stylesheet option (it sets the html.stylesheet XSL parameter), for example: --stylesheet "docbook-xsl.css mycss.css" . This applies to HTML outputs not PDF. To achieve the same results with PDF outputs you will need to customize the DocBook XSL Stylesheets to render indented paragraphs from DocBook simpara elements containing the the role="indented" attribute. 34. Is there a way to set default table grid and frame attributes? You can set the grid and frame attributes globally in your document header with Attribute Entries or from the command-line using the --attribute option. In the following example tables that don't explicitly set the grid and frame values will default to all and topbot respectively: :grid: all :frame: topbot This technique can be applied to any block element attribute (just beware of possible ambiguity, for example, table and image blocks both have a width attribute). 35. How can I place a backslash character in front of an attribute reference without escaping the reference? Use the predefined {backslash} attribute reference instead of an actual backslash, for example if