The other day I was thinking about this. I thought that it would be a great idea to have a pillar rendering engine inside Pharo. In that way the documentation written will be available in the image WYSIWYG with no need for recompilation. The update of books will be easy, just do a Software Update and the documentation is up to date. a Pillar rendering, WYSIWYG editor would be great. cheers Nacho
*Lic. Ignacio Sniechowski, MBA* *Prosavic SRL* *Tel: (011) 4542-6714* On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 2:49 PM, kilon.alios [via Smalltalk] < [email protected]> wrote: > Funnily enough I am in the exact opposite opinion, of Graphical approach > being vastly superior to text based approach including programming > languages. 25 years using computers and coding with them and still cannot > fathom why programming languages are still a think and why developers and > "power" users rely so much on text based approach. But whether I like it or > not the coding world is dominated by text based solutions. > > Its a pointless debate though when it comes to pharo will depend on the > people doing the work. Personally I don't have the time of going very deep > into this and doing all the hard work it requires. My focus is elsewhere. > But I welcome any contribution. > > As a lawyer myself and a coder, I cannot even begin to compare Latex to > the convenience of Libreoffice I use at work. Its not even a debate . > Latex is something I never heard of until Pillar introduced me to it. > Can't imagine who in the right mind would use this to document things, but > I guess they have their reasons. > > I started with command line and CP/M back in 1988 but even back then when > GUIs were not mainstream (at least in my country) I was dreaming of > graphical intefaces that would lift me from the restrictions of text based > approach and the dreaded command line. I wish I had found out about > Smalltalk back then and its elegant solution to this problem. > > I love Pillar because its simple and I like the syntax, but yeah in the > end I would choose a Graphical Documentation Tool no questions asked. > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Dmitri Zagidulin <[hidden email] > <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4820973&i=0>> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[hidden email] >> <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4820973&i=1>> wrote: >>> >>> I dream that all documents in my Dynabook are WYSIWYG. However, the >>> computing world seems to have regressed into writing documents in various >>> forms of assembly code. >> >> >> Completely disagree, that it's a regression in any way :) Text-based >> document writing has enabled so many more features than WYSIWYG approaches >> have ever dreamed of. I would be happy to debate the merits of the two >> approaches, feature-for-feature. >> >> You're basically pining for the equivalent of VisualBasic drag & drop >> programming, versus the flexibility of writing code in an editor. The >> latter wins, no contest. (Now, that is not to say that text-based code >> editing can't be /improved/ with better IDE tools, that's what we're all >> about after all.) >> >> > > > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > > http://forum.world.st/Improving-the-documentation-model-tp4820814p4820973.html > To start a new topic under Pharo Smalltalk Developers, email > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from Pharo Smalltalk Developers, click here > <http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=1294837&code=MDgwMG5hY2hvQGdtYWlsLmNvbXwxMjk0ODM3fC0xOTAxMTExODEy> > . > NAML > <http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > ----- Nacho Smalltalker apprentice. Buenos Aires, Argentina. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Improving-the-documentation-model-tp4820814p4820976.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
