On 10 May 2014, at 17:01, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote:
> I found a bug in Pillar syntax
>
> when I type 3 + 4 , it seems like it takes + as part of the pillar syntax
> and uses latex syntax and when it tries to generate the pdf it fails so I am
> forced now to type it as raw text like this : {{{3+4}}}
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature :). I’d suggest you to use something like
==inline code== for wrapping of ‘’italic’'.
>
> also I would like the ability to have a dark background for text like we do
> with smalltalk syntax .
I don’t really understand what you need. If you need to style the result, it
should be done outside of pillar.
>
>
> Pharo Tour chapters proceeds well, I compile to both latex html and pdf , I
> see no problems so far with my text, I copy my text directly from the latex
> files of the original PBE in github.
>
> I also improved the Readme.
>
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:16 AM, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I also added Chapter 1 - Quick Tour in Pharo. Just the first part , the
>> chapter is of course still a WIP.
>>
>> I am not so sure what you mean about automated tests, are they for the
>> example code ?
>
>
> if you see in the tex when we have example we also have a tag that indicates
> that the code can be extracted
> and run. I do not remember but oscar did a script and we where able to
> automatically verify that all the simple examples were correctly working with
> a version of Pharo.
>
> Now in Pillar we should introduce the notion of tag to support at the word
> level.
> - index
> - comment
> - citation
>
>
>>
>> I am all for automation.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:08 PM, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This is really cool that people want to update the Pharo by Example book.
>> This is a really an important task and it will have a real impact.
>> You can also reduce the number of screenshots or point related to the
>> interaction.
>>
>> What would be good is to make the automated tests working again because we
>> could spot
>> if we got some regressions.
>>
>> Stef
>>
>>
>> How I can help improve Pharo by Example , add chapters and update current
>> ones for Pharo 3 ?
>>
>> What is the process ?
>>
>>
>>
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