= Unfolding Java Transactions Open Book
Author <mih_vlad@yahoo.com>
v0.0.1, 2014-01-02

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== Introduction
This book is meant to be written in an open-source manner and the reason for writing it may be found http://vladmihalcea.com/my-open-book-movement/[here].

== Writing guide

This book is written using http://asciidoctor.org/[Asciidoctor] for it offers:

* a text-based document format, which eases collaboration and change tracking on GitHub
* OS independence
* PDF, DocBook, HTML5 support
* sub-document inclusion
* a rich set of tools like:
** https://github.com/edusantana/asciidoc-highlight[Notepad{plus}{plus} syntax highlight]
** http://asciidoctor.org/docs/editing-asciidoc-with-live-preview/[Live preview]

You can find an Asciidoctor quick reference http://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-syntax-quick-reference/[here].