This sounds quite fascinating.
Two questions: - How do I use it? - How are you generating the PDF?
We are finishing a version first :) For the first version you will be able to - edit a file in pier syntax - generate latex file -> pdf - generate html Now in a second step - see if we can offer online editing - we will add more backends In parallel we plan to migrate some chapters to the new formats. Stef
Stéphane and I have been working on Gutemberg, a tool that converts books written using the Pier syntax to PDF documents and HTML pages.
http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~DamienCassou/Pier-Gutemberg
This project is partially supported by ESUG http://www.esug.org/.
We are proud to announce the first alpha version of Gutemberg. This alpha version has a nearly-complete PDF exporter and a basically-working HTML exporter.
We use Inria infrastructure to build one example book: https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoForTheEnterprise/.
The long term goal is to facilitate collaborative book editing. We don't want to impose a web browser and an active Internet connection.
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