How to print Smalltalk code from Pharo/Squeak?

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How to print Smalltalk code from Pharo/Squeak?

What is the best way to print - syntax colored and well formatted - code from Pharo/Squeak on paper?

1) Is there a way to print directly from within Pharo/Squeak? (i use it on macosx)
2) Is there a way to export syntax colored, well formatted code from Pharo/Squak?
3) Are there external tools to color and format a filed out piece of code?

1) Install shout from www.squeaksource.com

2) I don't know. May be you can customize shout.

3) In gnu-smalltalk you have a smalltalk mode for emacs. But I am not pretty sure to understand what you are looking for.

mathk 2010-07-07 22:29:32

I’m looking for a way to read smalltalk code. And i wanted to print it on paper (the question was not about „pretty-print“ in the smalltalk-browser).

2010-07-08 06:58:28

Pharo browsers seem to use syntax highlighting.

What difficulty are you having reading Smalltalk code using the browsers and senders/implementors ?

Edit: Would something that produces UML give the overview you're looking for? The Dandelion website only shows downloads for old Squeak versions - I don't know if they would work with Pharo.

And perhaps this GSoC project "Generate UML diagrams from Smalltalk code for Pharo" suggests not.

igouy 2010-07-09 01:55:20

The Pharo browsers are good. It’s just my desk is so much bigger than my screen - so i can have a look at so much more code at once - and i think it’s easier to get the „big picture“.At the moment i print screenshots from the Pharo browser for each class - this gives me something in the spirit of crc-cards (http://c2.com/doc/crc/draw.html)

2010-07-10 11:44:01

@roy-fleming - I was never even slightly tempted to do that with Smalltalk so it's quite puzzling to me.

igouy 2010-07-16 14:08:13

For the appendix in my master thesis I used the Pier CMS-to-LaTeX converter in the Pier-Documentation package. However, this plugin only takes class comments and method comments into consideration, it does not print the source code. Pier also provides a package ShoutPier for syntax highlighting of Smalltalk code, so I guess it would require little work to bring the two together. You can find the mentioned extension packages in http://source.lukas-renggli.ch/pieraddons.html.

Lukas Renggli 2010-07-10 13:53:13

Thank you. I was able to get some nice printouts using PRLatexBuilder.

2010-07-11 10:09:56

Nevertheless i hoped something like this would be a common task and built into the standard system.. But it seems people don’t print code on paper so often?

2010-07-11 10:11:57

Earlier versions of Squeak (around version 3.0) had a HTML exporter similar to the file-out mechanism still present today. I guess that could have worked for printing. It was removed at some point because nobody used it and it broke over time.

Lukas Renggli 2010-07-11 11:57:01

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