# Building the documentation
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-the-documentation/15210
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 11, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-the-documentation/15210 "2014-01-11T20:01:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-the-documentation/15210/1 "2014-01-11T20:01:52Z")
I have been accumulating a few documentation inconsistencies over the past
several months and I wanted to finally fix them and contribute them back.
Last time I made any changes was in the old markdown repository. I am
referring to the documentation under the main project (
[https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/tree/master/docs](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/tree/master/docs)) not the
new documentation repo ([https://github.com/elasticsearch/docs](https://github.com/elasticsearch/docs)).
How is the site asciidoc built? Since Github uses asciidoctor, I have tried
using it, but I cannot come up with a way to create the same directory
structure using the default stylesheets/templates, so there is obviously
more to building the documents that what is included in git. Or am I
missing something? My sole command line flag is ''-d book".
Cheers,
Ivan
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2014, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-the-documentation/15210/2 "2014-01-11T20:39:10Z")
It seems I have misunderstood the intent of the new documentation repo and
it is indeed what I am looking for. I assumed it was the WIP elasticsearch
book. Asciidoc is fairly simple, not sure why this level of complexity is
needed.
Cheers,
Ivan
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Ivan Brusic [ivan@brusic.com](mailto:ivan@brusic.com) wrote:
> I have been accumulating a few documentation inconsistencies over the past
> several months and I wanted to finally fix them and contribute them back.
> Last time I made any changes was in the old markdown repository. I am
> referring to the documentation under the main project (
> [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/tree/master/docs](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/tree/master/docs)) not the
> new documentation repo ([https://github.com/elasticsearch/docs](https://github.com/elasticsearch/docs)).
>
> How is the site asciidoc built? Since Github uses asciidoctor, I have
> tried using it, but I cannot come up with a way to create the same
> directory structure using the default stylesheets/templates, so there is
> obviously more to building the documents that what is included in git. Or
> am I missing something? My sole command line flag is ''-d book".
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ivan
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-the-documentation/15210/3 "2017-07-06T01:57:15Z")