P.S. I remember that speed might be a problem. When you first open the help system the compilation from markdown is going on with a noticeable delay.
On 11/15/12, H. Hirzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Torsten, > > In August this year I loaded NBHelp into Squeak. NBHelp uses the > mark-down syntax. > > Here is a description how I did it > > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-August/165587.html > > (written in markdown :-) ) > > > NBHelp uses PetitParser. > > > You write that you want to have a pluggable design. For a start I > think a dependency on PetitParser would not be harmful though the > code would be larger. But PetitParser is not all that big either. It > helps you to get into action quickly and safely. > > Later on somebody might want to replace it with a manually written > mark down parser. I think there is one in Lukas's wiki code. This then > would make the help system self-contained and a bit smaller. > > As I am concerned I would not have a problem with a dependency on > PetitParser. > > As of now the challenge with the help system is more on the actual > writing of documentation and not so much on the tool side. > > But your work is instrumental to make this happen. Thank you. > > > --Hannes > > On 11/14/12, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: >> It should be a pluggable design similar to current help >> system so one can write in wikistyle, html, markdown, ... >> >> But we need one default. I like Markdown too - but >> do we have some lean code to parse or just transform >> it to HTML. >> >> The help system should be relative small - so it >> can be delivered with the default image. >> Dont know about current dependecies of PetitParser >> and friends. >> >> Bye >> T. >> >> >> >> >> >
