On December 25, 2015 5:02:13 PM GMT+01:00, "Saša Janiška" <g...@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 >
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
