[Cuis-dev] Erudite

[Douglas Brebner]

On 19/10/2022 20:29, Mariano Montone via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Erudite is a book composer and reader. It's up to the author how they 
> want to use those books.
> 
> I've used them as help system for Cuis (load EruditeHelp package), and 
> also for documenting libraries and frameworks, like Morphic, PetitParser 
> and Magritte.
> 
> The contents of the book are interactive, so for example, the book on 
> Morphic embeds the morphs it explains about, the PetitParser book 
> displays parser evaluation results, etc.
> 
> Also, you can easily embed and point to Smalltalk code.
> 
> Just load MorphicBook or PetitParserTutorial packages and have a look.

I know the basics of what they are.

What I meant was, if it's meant to be an actual book system rather than 
just a help viewer it could be a good idea to extend it so more of the 
books structure is reified so they can be manipulated as objects instead 
of raw text.

The reason I asked was seeing mention that Erudite doesn't understand 
paragraphs or lists or other basic structures. I feel that a system for 
books (rather than just help text) should be as capable as Markdown or 
the like.

Also,I'm jealous of the documentation systems that Racket and Pharo have :)

Sorry if my original question wasn't clear.