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


St�phane 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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