On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:51 PM, laurent laffont <[email protected]>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 :) > > Take into account that you have the CSS of the pbe website: http://pharobyexample.org/ Ok, it is not that much heheheh but something is better than nothing ;) > 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 >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
