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/


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