On December 25, 2015 5:02:13 PM GMT+01:00, "Saša Janiška" <gour@atmarama.com> wrote:
Hiya,
I see that Pharo project has embraced Pillar system for documentation purposes and my first question was "Why Pillar?" since, iirc, comparison was made with e.g Markdown which is, obviously, not sufficient for eg. authoring books, but there are more capable markups with 'standard' implementations like rst/Sphinx and Asciidoc(tor).
Then I thought it must be some deeper reason, iow. something suitable to work more closely with Pharo itself.
Now I have two questions:
1) Can someone answer in more detail "Why Pillar?" and
2) For some time I was considering whether to settle on using rst or AsciiDoc for *all* my writings, which means blog posts, my study notes, preparing books, writing articles etc.
Since I've settled to use Python-powered static-site-generator (Nikola) along with reStructuredText markup which can call external 'compilers' to process blog posts written in specific markup, I wonder if it would be possible to use Pillar markup with it since it seems there is cli for it?
Sincerely, Gour Â
We wanted to generate slides, Cyril changed Pillar to generate slides. We want to generate exercises and questions, we will change Pillar to generate questions in a dedicated format for a specific MOOC platform. Because Pillar is in Pharo, is well designed and is fully tested, we can easily extend it the way we want. -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill