Have a look at http://jgm.github.io/lunamark/ :) It may be a dirty hack, that I do not know :)
Ben On 13 Nov 2013, at 20:27, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > > On 13 Nov 2013, at 20:22, Benjamin <benjamin.vanryseghem.ph...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 13 Nov 2013, at 20:05, 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). >> >> Ok :) >> But as an end user, do you feel the difference ? > > I know, but the documentation is meant to be integrated in the Pharo > ecosystem. > > It would be completely silly to have class comments in MD (no matter how cool > this would be) _and_ *not* be able to have Nautilus parse/render them, with > active links, etc… > >> There are some PEG grammar for markdown, maybe it could be reused so PP can >> parse it :) >> then one could generate Pier format out of markdown :) > > So indeed, that is what we need. [And what we already have for Pier]. > But be sure to ask Camillo how his 2 attempts went before you get ambitious. > I look at the PP MD code and thought, I can do better, but after writing some > actual code, I stopped ;-) > > BTW, please point me to grammar, I never found one ! Each MD parser is one > big hack. > >> Ben >> >>> >>>> 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
