You won I put a filter markdown to thrash on my mail sadly.
On Nov 12, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Camillo Bruni wrote: >>> It depends at which level. >>> Can you tag on word in markdown to have bold, italic, index? > > stef, I already explained you that at least 4 times! Plus I gave you the > solutions, > the only thing I don't have is the time to complete the Markdown parser! > >>> If I would not have written 350 pages of seaside book with pier it would be >>> a different story but >>> so far pier syntax is good for doing everything: html, latex, even markdown. >> >> In Markdown, it is *italic* or _italic_ and **bold** and __bold__. >> >> Now for index entries, I don't know exactly - making an automatic index is a >> special post process function anyway. >> I think you could do something like [ReadStream][index-entry]s are objects >> that you can read bytes or characters from. >> >> Making a book from several independent source files is quite a job that >> requires custom programming. It would be very cool if we could do all that >> in Smalltalk, using a good Markdown parser and a cool object representation. >> >> I have nothing against Pier, but it is something that only exists in our >> niche world, not in the larger world out there. > > my words! > > So we already had a Markdown / HelpSystem crossover for NativeBoost / ASMJit > where we injected > custom URLs to add method and class links, that worked pretty well. So I > assume it will be > not that much work on top to get section links ready. > > Something like book://section/subsection is very easy to do, a bit verbose > maybe but very > consistent. > > > so, please support: > https://github.com/dh83/PPMarkdown > http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/petitmarkdown.html/
