Great! That reminds me... would it be too hard to be able to export Excel files from Pharo? Or at least Open Office Spreadsheets?
That could be a project idea too. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Good one, Nick. I can offer to be second mentor on this one as well. > > Cheers, > Doru > > > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Nick Ager <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Janko, > > > > Here you go: 'ePUB Output for Pier Books' > > > > -------------- > > > > Name: ePUB Output for Pier Books > > Level: Intermediate > > Possible mentor: Nick Ager > > Possible second mentor: Lukas Rengli > > > > Description > > Pier [1,2] is an extensible object-oriented content management > system that > > includes a book authoring engine. The book authoring engine has been > used to > > document a number of Smalltalk based projects, most notable Seaside [3] > as > > well as Moose [4] and Pharo [5]. > > > > The goal of this project is add ePUB [6] as an output format to Pier > > enabling existing and future Pier books and other Pier content to be > output > > in a format readable by popular eReaders. > > > > [1] http://www.piercms.com/ > > [2] http://code.google.com/p/pier/ > > [3] http://book.seaside.st/ > > [4] http://www.themoosebook.org/ > > [5] http://book.pharo-project.org/ > > [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB > > > > Technical Details > > > > Content in Pier is parsed into a document tree that supports the visitor > > pattern [7] for traversing the internal representation. Pier currently > > supports a number of output formats such as HTML, plain text, RSS, wiki > > text. These formats are generated by visitors. The existing visitors > would > > act as a template for creation of an ePUB visitor which would generate > ePUB > > compatible output. > > > > [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor_pattern > > > > Benefits to the Student > > The project is well defined with a clear deliverable. The student will > gain > > an understanding of the internals of a powerful, well structured content > > management system as well as the satisfaction of having a set of > artefacts > > in the format of the existing Pier book content translated into ePUB > > format. > > > > Benefits to the Community > > The Smalltalk community and others using the Pier book authoring engine > will > > gain ePUB as an output format. With an ebook output format authors have a > > potential new revenue source, encouraging a virtuous cycle of increasing > > documentation within and outside the community. > > > > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Every thing has its own flow" > >
