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MartinW

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.

Damien Pollet

Re: I wish there were ePUB versions of Pharo books

ePub export should be pretty easy to add to Pillar, based on the existing html export. Any volunteers ?

Le jeudi 25 février 2016, MartinW <[hidden email]> 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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CyrilFerlicot

Re: I wish there were ePUB versions of Pharo books

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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-tp4880836.html
> 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.

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Esteban A. Maringolo

Re: I wish there were ePUB versions of Pharo books

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2016-02-25 15:40 GMT-03:00 Damien Pollet <[hidden email]>:
> 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

stepharo

Re: I wish there were ePUB versions of Pharo books

In reply to this post by MartinW

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 :

MartinW

Re: I wish there were ePUB versions of Pharo books

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-tp4880836.html
> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>

stepharo

Re: I wish there were ePUB versions of Pharo books

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-tp4880836.html
>>> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
>
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>

Clément Béra

Re: I wish there were ePUB versions of Pharo books

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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 <[hidden email]>:

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.

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SergeStinckwich

Re: I wish there were ePUB versions of Pharo books

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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-with-kendrick/details
is available as
- pdf : https://www.gitbook.com/download/pdf/book/sergestinckwich/modelling-infectious-diseases-with-kendrick
- html : https://sergestinckwich.gitbooks.io/modelling-infectious-diseases-with-kendrick/content/
- ePub : https://www.gitbook.com/download/epub/book/sergestinckwich/modelling-infectious-diseases-with-kendrick

Regards,

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 7:04 PM, MartinW <[hidden email]> wrote:

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