On Oct 30, 2013, at 5:53 PM, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com> wrote:
> This makes sense. But I have 2 opinions:
>
> 1) If we want something like markdown, why not to use Markdown?
because we will have to patch it anyway because it is uncomplete (missing
features for making decent book).
> 2) When I think about the book I think about something nice. I don’t think
> that markdown is good for books. That’s exactly what I encountered. I wanted
> to start with this updated version of RBE and wanted to use Gutenberg so it
> will be possible to put the book on iBook store and Amazon and read it on
> iDevices and Kindles. But When I started to rewrite latex source in Gutenberg
> I’ve found that a lot of details are going to be missing, because the is no
> support in Gutenberg for them.
Like what?
Be precise because we can extend gutenberg to cover these needs.
Because we took the previous pharo book macros and reduce the set.
> That’s my main question: why won’t we write books in ePub (because it the #1
> eBooks format) and confer it to .mobi (for kindles) as the formats can be
> converted without a problem.
Because with gutenberg+ we can generate
- latex
- markdown
- html
so you can add epub
I do not want to eith write doc or book or html I want one format to produce
them all.
> I’d also enjoy to write books in iBooks Author, but it will be hard to
> cooperate as not everybody is using Mac.
>
> Cheers.
> Uko
>
> On 30 Oct 2013, at 17:36, Damien Cassou <damien.cas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com> wrote:
>>> Why do we need Pier-Gutenberg? Why can’t we gust use ePub for example?
>>
>> We need a simple text based syntax (like for wiki) to write
>> documentation fast (e.g., books, class comments, method comments). I
>> don't know ePub, but it looks a lot like HTML, which is way too
>> verbose for our needs. Gutemberg looks more like Mardown and Org-mode.
>> The difference with these 2 is that everything is written in Smalltalk
>> so it is easy to customize to our needs and embed in Pharo (e.g., to
>> show beautiful class comments in Nautilus, just like in Amber:
>> http://forum.world.st/attachment/4684866/0/Screen%20Shot%202013-05-02%20at%2012.11.59%20AM.png)
>>
>> --
>> Damien Cassou
>> http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st
>>
>> "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
>> losing enthusiasm."
>> Winston Churchill
>>
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