I wish there were ePUB versions of Pharo books
I like Pharo's new book site: http://files.pharo.org/books/ And since I use a tablet more often, I wish there were ePUB versions of the books. Why is it important? You could change the color scheme to light text on dark background and increase font sizes and thus have a much more comfortable reading experience than with PDFs. I remember there was some talk about this some time ago. Best regards, Martin. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/I-wish-there-were-ePUB-versions-of-Pharo-books-tp48808... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
ePub export should be pretty easy to add to Pillar, based on the existing html export. Any volunteers ? Le jeudi 25 février 2016, MartinW <wm@fastmail.fm> a écrit :
I like Pharo's new book site: http://files.pharo.org/books/
And since I use a tablet more often, I wish there were ePUB versions of the books.
Why is it important? You could change the color scheme to light text on dark background and increase font sizes and thus have a much more comfortable reading experience than with PDFs.
I remember there was some talk about this some time ago.
Best regards, Martin.
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-- Damien Pollet type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet
2016-02-25 15:40 GMT-03:00 Damien Pollet <damien.pollet@gmail.com>:
ePub export should be pretty easy to add to Pillar, based on the existing html export. Any volunteers ?
I don't volunteer, but the ebook creator of the ProGit book creates really good looking book, with a menu to access the chapters. https://github.com/progit/progit/blob/master/README.original.md Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo
Le 25/02/2016 19:04, MartinW a écrit :
I like Pharo's new book site: http://files.pharo.org/books/
And since I use a tablet more often, I wish there were ePUB versions of the books.
Why is it important? You could change the color scheme to light text on dark background and increase font sizes and thus have a much more comfortable reading experience than with PDFs.
I remember there was some talk about this some time ago.
Best regards, Martin.
-- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/I-wish-there-were-ePUB-versions-of-Pharo-books-tp48808... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hi, We need manpower to implement the ePUB exporter in Pillar. If we implement it we could have an ePUB version of all the books (except Deep Into Pharo for the moment). But there is still the problem of manpower :( It should not be that hard since there is a lot of tests to help. -- Cyril Ferlicot http://www.synectique.eu 165 Avenue Bretagne Lille 59000 France
Hi martin Why don't you give a try? Pillar has - a nice document - some nice visitors - nice test system So someone can extend it. Because we cannot do everything. You cannot imagine how we are busy right now. Stef Le 25/2/16 19:04, MartinW a écrit :
I like Pharo's new book site: http://files.pharo.org/books/
And since I use a tablet more often, I wish there were ePUB versions of the books.
Why is it important? You could change the color scheme to light text on dark background and increase font sizes and thus have a much more comfortable reading experience than with PDFs.
I remember there was some talk about this some time ago.
Best regards, Martin.
-- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/I-wish-there-were-ePUB-versions-of-Pharo-books-tp48808... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
I can imagine that you are busy. I will have a look as soon as I have some spare time, but this will not be in the next two month... Martin. stepharo wrote
Hi martin
Why don't you give a try? Pillar has - a nice document - some nice visitors - nice test system So someone can extend it. Because we cannot do everything. You cannot imagine how we are busy right now. Stef
Le 25/2/16 19:04, MartinW a écrit :
I like Pharo's new book site: http://files.pharo.org/books/
And since I use a tablet more often, I wish there were ePUB versions of the books.
Why is it important? You could change the color scheme to light text on dark background and increase font sizes and thus have a much more comfortable reading experience than with PDFs.
I remember there was some talk about this some time ago.
Best regards, Martin.
-- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/I-wish-there-were-ePUB-versions-of-Pharo-books-tp48808... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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If you have pointers on epub let us know so that we gather information on it. Stef Le 26/2/16 08:52, MartinW a écrit :
I can imagine that you are busy. I will have a look as soon as I have some spare time, but this will not be in the next two month...
Martin.
stepharo wrote
Hi martin
Why don't you give a try? Pillar has - a nice document - some nice visitors - nice test system So someone can extend it. Because we cannot do everything. You cannot imagine how we are busy right now. Stef
Le 25/2/16 19:04, MartinW a écrit :
I like Pharo's new book site: http://files.pharo.org/books/
And since I use a tablet more often, I wish there were ePUB versions of the books.
Why is it important? You could change the color scheme to light text on dark background and increase font sizes and thus have a much more comfortable reading experience than with PDFs.
I remember there was some talk about this some time ago.
Best regards, Martin.
-- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/I-wish-there-were-ePUB-versions-of-Pharo-books-tp48808... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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Alternatively, convertor from pdf to epub are available and free. Pillar can generate pdf. I know converting does not produce a file as good as if there were a pillar exporter, but that's a good enough temporary solution to me. 2016-02-25 22:54 GMT+01:00 stepharo <stepharo@free.fr>:
Hi martin
Why don't you give a try? Pillar has - a nice document - some nice visitors - nice test system So someone can extend it. Because we cannot do everything. You cannot imagine how we are busy right now. Stef
Le 25/2/16 19:04, MartinW a écrit :
I like Pharo's new book site: http://files.pharo.org/books/
And since I use a tablet more often, I wish there were ePUB versions of the books.
Why is it important? You could change the color scheme to light text on dark background and increase font sizes and thus have a much more comfortable reading experience than with PDFs.
I remember there was some talk about this some time ago.
Best regards, Martin.
-- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/I-wish-there-were-ePUB-versions-of-Pharo-books-tp48808... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
You can generate Markdown from Pillar and after generate an ePub. Have a look to gitbook.com, this is really easy to do that with their workflow. For example for this draft Pillar book : https://www.gitbook.com/book/sergestinckwich/modelling-infectious-diseases-w... is available as - pdf : https://www.gitbook.com/download/pdf/book/sergestinckwich/modelling-infectio... - html : https://sergestinckwich.gitbooks.io/modelling-infectious-diseases-with-kendr... - ePub : https://www.gitbook.com/download/epub/book/sergestinckwich/modelling-infecti... Regards, On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 7:04 PM, MartinW <wm@fastmail.fm> wrote:
I like Pharo's new book site: http://files.pharo.org/books/
And since I use a tablet more often, I wish there were ePUB versions of the books.
Why is it important? You could change the color scheme to light text on dark background and increase font sizes and thus have a much more comfortable reading experience than with PDFs.
I remember there was some talk about this some time ago.
Best regards, Martin.
-- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/I-wish-there-were-ePUB-versions-of-Pharo-books-tp48808... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
-- Serge Stinckwich UCBN & UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC) Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/
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