27 Jul
2014
27 Jul
'14
4:01 a.m.
Hi again,
I will be using this thread to update my advances and questions about
how to build an outliner in Pharo Smalltalk. If there is a better method
like starting a new thread for particular questions, or a less narrative
style, please let me know.
The idea is to use the tools provided by Moose to build a quick outliner
that can be extended to suit my needs on academical writing. This is
kind of a strange approach in the sense that I'm not following the
tutorials with a predefined problems (make a game and so) but trying to
start with a real (in the sense of closer) problem (making an outliner)
and to see which knowledge I need to solve this necessity. In that sense
is more like the Freire's alphabetization of adults in Brazil.
So, the things I have done so far was to search for a good model to
start with. Something already done that can be used as scaffolding for
my outliner. The Help System seems like a good start for an outliner (in
fact it is already one), so I have taken the Help-Core system and start
to use it as a base for my project.
After that I have used the Moose browsers to build a simple interface,
as seen here:
http://mutabit.com/offray/static/blog/output/galleries/objetos/ubakye-brows…
The part I want to deal with is this:
===============
explorer := GLMTabulator new
title: (mainTree header).
explorer column: #tree;
column: #body.
explorer transmit to: #tree; andShow: [:a |
a tree
display: mainTree children ].
explorer openOn: mainTree.
===============
So, instead of "display: mainTree children" I need something that takes
the get names (headers) of the two nodes and the contents in the right
panel. For that I think that I need to learn some iterators. I have
already a "header" method for the nodes. Any clue would be appreciated
and I will keep you posted on my advances.
Cheers,
Offray
On 07/21/2014 12:58 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote:
Hi Damien,
Thanks for your answer. Comments below.
On 07/21/2014 11:09 AM, Damien Cassou wrote:
I have seen Pillar. Seems really interesting, but Pandocs markdown
support academic citation in several formats and I have already long
docs wrote on that format integrated in my workflow from Zotero and even
there is a growing community working on Scholarly Markdown[1][2] so I
would like to stick with it as much as I can for my own writing.
That being said. I would like also a better integration between
Smalltalk outliners and all the academic publication work flow,
including working better with pandoc as a external library.
[1] https://github.com/scholmd/scholmd/wiki
[2] http://blog.martinfenner.org/2013/06/29/metadata-in-scholarly-markdown/
[3]
http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/sustainable-authorship-in-plain-tex…
Thanks again, this conversation with people in the community is very
valuable to me,
Offray
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Offray Vladimir
Luna Cárdenas
<offray(a)riseup.net> wrote:
This is a kind of raw preview of I'm talking about:
http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-53cd4f36f021e9.68569046.jpg
Of course in this case, it is just a Help browser with a Playground
window over it, but I would like to have something like Playgrounds
inside the help browser. I was trying to build a custom browser with
Glamour, but seems that Help Browser already has the machinery I'm
looking for.
So my first question is how to use the Help Browser class as a template
for my outliner class? And can I put a Playground where the plain text
is located right now?
The first idea that comes to mind is using STON
for storage nodes and
tree
information, so I can interchange it with the flatland files world
and keep
it readable. Sounds that reasonable?
without more information, it is hard to stay. Try with STON and change
if that does not work :-). We have XML and JSON generators as well.
The second thing I would like to do is to add
pandoc's markdown inside
comments, but I don't like the syntax of comments in Smalltalk because
single quotes are fairly easy to find in light markup language like
markdown. Is difficult to change it to create something more like python
(with """) or Lua (with -[]- )?
There is only one syntax for comments in Pharo. Instead of Markdown,
you might want to have a look at Pillar which is implemented in Pharo
and can generate Markdown (and html, and pdf) :
https://github.com/pillar-markup/pillar-documentation/