On 13 Nov 2013, at 20:22, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.ber...@me.com> wrote:
> Why not generating markdown code from pier code? > If the whole problem is exposure on the web. Someone has considered pdf2html > or latex2html? Maybe my question is naive, I do not know. It is not silly, and yes it could be done quite easily I guess, if it even has not yet been done already. > On some point, i have tried to generate the roassal documentation from the > Roassal Help, but it makes the maintenance loop heavy: If I want to fix > something in the text, I had to edit the Help in Pharo, generating the > document, compiling into .pdf. Quite heavy it was. At the end, I only worked > on the .tex files. > > Alexandre > > > On Nov 13, 2013, at 4:05 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > >> >> On 13 Nov 2013, at 19:59, Benjamin <benjamin.vanryseghem.ph...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> It was a real question, and it feels like you overreacted the answer … >>> >>> To me, markdown or pier is a new syntax to learn so I am asking … >>> To me, doing Pier because you do or because you said to is no really an >>> argument. >>> >>> Then I am open to a real answer but I also see that markdown is integrated >>> to a lot of tools (github and jekylls by examples) >>> and that a lot of people knows about markdown. >>> >>> This was a real question, not a troll … >> >> I like .md as well and yes, the github integration makes it compelling. >> >> But one objective argument against Markdown and in favour of Pier is that >> the former has no good parser and/or document model and and the latter does >> have both, in Pharo. That means that we can write all sorts of tools >> ourselves and get things finished, as was proven with the books. >> >> There simply isn’t any definitive, unambiguous Markdown syntax (the github >> variant is only one version). >> >>> Ben >>> >>> On 13 Nov 2013, at 19:22, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> do you really think that I insist of using pier syntax because >>>> A- I want to lose my time >>>> B- this is for my ego? >>>> C- because I'm funny >>>> D- ... >>>> >>>> No seriously? >>>> >>>> If you want to get an answer read the thread that yuri raised a while ago. >>>> Because we already discussed discussed and discussed it. >>>> >>>> I will not write any book in markdown. Now you can try and we see. >>>> >>>> Stef >>>> >>>>> Stef, what is the advantages of writing it in Pier compared to markdown ? >>>>> >>>>> Ben >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > >
