Improve documention on how to use .adoc snippets

Closes gh-279
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mle
2016-07-21 20:06:15 +02:00
committed by Andy Wilkinson
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[[getting-started-using-the-snippets]]
=== Using the snippets
The generated snippets can be included in your documentation using the
Before using the generated snippets from above, an ```\*.adoc``` source file must be manually created.
Its filename does not matter for either of the two build tools' Asciidoctor plugins mentioned
above and will also be the name of the finally generated ```*.html``` file.
For the exact locations refer to the following table.
[cols="2,5,8"]
|===
| Build tool | Source files | Generated files
| Maven
| ```src/main/asciidoc/*.adoc```
| ```${project.build.directory}/generated-docs/*.html```
| Gradle
| ```src/docs/asciidoc/*.adoc```
| ```$buildDir/asciidoc/*.html```
|===
The generated snippets can then be included in the manually created Asciidoctor file from above using the
http://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-syntax-quick-reference/#include-files[include macro].
The `snippets` attribute specified in the <<getting-started-build-configuration, build
configuration>> can be used to reference the snippets output directory. For example: