On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>wrote:
> this would be gorgeous. > I like your doing spirit laurent! > oh, it's the first thing I've learned in Pharo. Right-click, do it :) Laurent > > Stef > > On May 6, 2011, at 6:51 PM, laurent laffont wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Stéphane Ducasse < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I installed pdf to html but I could not make it run :( > > > > htlatex seems OK, we can start with this. Need to supply a nice CSS > though. I will try to find some time to play with (help always welcome :) > > > > Laurent. > > > > > > On May 6, 2011, at 2:05 PM, laurent laffont wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Stéphane Ducasse < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Ok if some good souls want to give a try to generate html. > > > > > > > > > On OSX with MacTex-2010 installed, I've tried > > > > > > git clone --depth 1 > https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/PharoByExample-english.git > > > cd PharoByExample-english/ > > > htlatex PBE1.tex "html,2" > > > > > > Then open PBE1.html , one page per chapter. > > > > > > See http://www.tug.org/applications/tex4ht/mn-commands.html > > > > > > Laurent. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Stef > > > > > > > > > > > > > Probably we should find a way to generate HTML from PDF or Latex. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > > I've used latex2html several years ago. > > > > > > > > +1 for html > > > > > > > > Laurent. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>>> Now for the documentation when did you send an help > documentation for any part of the system? > > > > >>>> Or a bug fix? > > > > >>>> I find quite funny that people always talk but few are doing. We > welcome comments/examples help. > > > > >>> No need to get into a cat-fight here :) > > > > >> > > > > >> No this is not my point. But what do people really do to help? > > > > >> > > > > >>> I do agree with Stefan, as well as with you that we could help; > but I'm unaware of a good documentation effort outside of the image to start > with. Camillo's website project might be the best effort I've seen until > now; but then I didn't really look either. Maybe I missed some great > website? > > > > >> > > > > >> If this is just to spit out class comment on html I do not call > that a documentation. > > > > >> Now we can take the book contents and generate html > > > > >> We have 350 pages in the first book and the same in the second > one. > > > > >> People are free to join and write one or two chapters. > > > > > > > > > > Stéphane, > > > > > > > > > > Of course you are right: wining/complaining doesn't help, only > action does. We need more people like Laurent focusing on documentation. > > > > > > > > > > I for one think that the well written, high quality books that > exist (PBE, Seaside Book) are *very valuable*, much better than confusing > wiki site (although these have their place as well). > > > > > > > > > > But the other point is: in most other popular languages, what > current, young developers do, when they get an error that they don't > understand is copy/paste the literal text in Google and in a surprisingly > large number of cases you find some real answers in the first page. > > > > > > > > > > This is also related to popularity of course. > > > > > > > > > > Sven > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
