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.
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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 13 Nov 2013, at 19:59, Benjamin <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> 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 ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
