newbie. how to print source in a nicely human readable form?

Andrew P. Black black at cse.ogi.edu
Fri Jan 19 19:28:23 UTC 2001


>At 6:49 PM +0100 1/19/01, Raymond Tiefenthal wrote:
>>
>>In order to better understand squeak, I would like to print out (big)
>>portions of the source. #fileOutAsHtml: for example, isn't sufficient.
>>
>>thx for the replies to my previous question
>
>Believe it or not, the majority of Smalltalk appear to eschew 
>printed listings for the browser.  I, too, was incredulous about 
>this when I began, but I have learned that browsing is almost always 
>superior to printed output in practice.

Yes, indeed. But there are cases when one needs to show Smalltalk 
code to people who don't have a browser, because they are not (yet) 
Smalltalk users.  In these cases, I have found Dandilion to be a 
wonderful aid.  It will produce nicely formatted and linked HTML 
pages.  See 
http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~umejava/smalltalk/stClasses/dandelion/index.html

Be warned: Dandelion is big, and it can produce many other things in 
addition to  HTML pages (like UML diagrams).  But it will do what you 
want.  Look at the examples.

	Andrew





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