Hi,
In Grafoscopio, we follow a rolling release model, so we don't
make a lot of noise about new versions, but this one has several
features worthy to mention:
a. Pharo 6 & 6.1 support, with out of the box 64 bits support
on Mac and Gnu/Linux.
b. Improved support for documentation: Now we have a
GrafoscopioDocumentation object that defines documentation as a
(Fossil) repository with a list of documents inside and is able to
download and update them to their last version using the standard
Fossil JSON API.
c. Improved traceability: The usual document workflow in
Grafoscopio is to create a notebook (i.e notebook.ston), export it
as Markdown (notebook.markdown) and convert it to PDF
(notebook.pdf) or HTMl (notebook.html). Now in the notebook.ston
--> notebook.markdown --> notebook.pdf workflow, the
exported/derived file contains the checksum of the last saved
source file where it comes from. So, notebook.markdown contain the
checksum of notebook.ston in the YAML metadata block [1][2], and
notebook.pdf can show the checksum of the notebook.markdown, as
exemplified in the User Manual [3].
[1] http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-yaml_metadata_block
[2]
http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/grafoscopio/artifact?name=99778d46ef034389&txt=1
[3]
http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/grafoscopio/doc/tip/Docs/En/Books/Manual/manual.pdf
d. Metadata config nodes: Now notebook internalizes the environment
(as Smalltalkers and Lispers[4] like ;-)). "%medatata" nodes (see
image below) allow a Grafoscopio notebook to define and control the
command line options used by the operative system to export the
notebook to other formats and enables the notebook to feedback such
options with information provided/calculated by the notebook itself.
This improves reproducibility greatly, because notebook now
describes even the external operations to it, to create other
derived files (Markdown, PDF, LaTeX and so on) and to interact with
the operative system where it resides (currently this only works on
Unix like operative systems like Mac and Gnu/Linux). Such
configuration options are defined in plain Pharo, using just
dictionaries and dynamic arrays, with some special keys.
[4] https://youtu.be/JnczIyPXGfc?t=2548
e. Support for multiple tags in a node: Until now the only allowed
tag was 'c��digo' (code), but now tags can be almost arbitrary. This
will open new ways to process and display the notebook document
tree, once the proper GUI features and interactions are developed.
f. Updated and corrected documentation: English User Manual has been
improved to reflect new features and several typos and errors have
been corrected.
Last stable Grafoscopio version is available from the Pharo Catalog,
and remember to run the update, frequently.
Enjoy,
Offray