On 11/12/12, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 +1
> On Nov 12, 2012, at 9:57 PM, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I completely agree that the PIer syntax is rather niche these days, but we >> should not confuse the PIer syntax with the Pier model. I think that it >> would be beneficial to capitalize on this model (and all the >> infrastructure built on top of it) and simply create a Markdown support. >> >> Cheers, >> Doru >> >> >> On 12 Nov 2012, at 15:56, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> 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/ >>> >>> >> >> -- >> www.tudorgirba.com >> >> "Every thing should have the right to be different." >> >> >> >> > > >
