TexLive2025 support for Bod Template

The Book on demand template did not work with recent installations of LaTeX (i.e. 2025).
This version of pillar fixes this problem.

Full Changelog: v11.0.1...v11.1.0

Lean Pillar v11.0.1

A version of Pillar without the Pillar syntax and only supporting Microdown.

Pharo 13: Pillar and Markdown Syntax

• Revisit all commands and make them work in Pharo13
• Latest version with Pillar syntax

Pharo 13 Pillar and Microdown Syntax

Ported to Pharo 13

• All commands were revisited and made to work
• Last version with the two formats supported.

Build html is back

Full Changelog: v10.4.2...v10.4.3

Last Microdown/Pillar dual support

This version is the last version supporting Pillar and Microdown syntax.
Pillar syntax is deprecated.

• Use Microdown visitors
• Microdown 2.9.2
• Mustache 1.3

The following version will revisit many of the command line and drop all the support for Pillar syntax
Full Changelog: v10.4.0...v10.4.2

Checkers and better LaTeX templates

• Uses Microdown V2.7.1: introduces new elements to support Foliage and web generation. It improves the document checker. Now the following analyses are reported: duplicated anchors, references to unexisting anchors, unreferenced figures, missing figure files, and missing input files. https://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown/releases/tag/v2.7.1
• Cleaned archetypes
• New documentation inside the bod-book template with the full syntax explained.
• Support for slides as header e.g. # a nice title Conversion of slides from pillar to Microdown
• Nicer support for extension e.g. {!comment|contents=sd thinks there is something fishy!} now can be expressed as {!comment|sd thinks there is something fishy!}`
• Two new archetypes are proposed: microdown-mooc and microdown-headerformat-mooc.
• Support for github actions with LaTeX.

v10.2.0

This is a rolling release before a major one. Nevertheless it brings many new features.

It includes new Microdown features and new archetypes

• New book tester: checks for undefined or duplicated anchors, bogus inputfile
• Notes support !!note pay attention the major release will
• Support for slides as extension e.g. <!slide|title=a nice title...
• Support for slides as header e.g. # a nice title
• Conversion of slides from pillar to Microdown
• Nicer support for extension e.g. {!comment|contents=sd thinks there is something fishy!} now can be expressed as {!comment|sd thinks there is something fishy!}`
• Cleaned book. Now pillar archetype bod-book can fully build on GH - check the workflows files that are automatically installed.
• Two new archetypes are proposed: microdown-mooc and microdown-headerformat-mooc
• Support for github actions with LaTeX

Known limits

• When you use bod-book you have to set the execution flags to execute on GH

chmod a+x _support  _support/latex/sbabook/ci/install-texlive

Next development

• Support for raw paragraph
• New syntax for annotated paragraph (following the one of GH) >[! Caution instead of !!Caution
• Check LaTeX templates for macros for comment, annotated paragraphs
• Check LaTeX templates for quoteblock
• Support for Foliage V2.0

v10.1.0

What's new

This new version is using Microdown v2.5.5.
This version of Pillar supports Microdown based Beamer slides.
It proposes two formats:

• using the microdown extension to express slide <!slide|title=A title slide... !>
• using header level 1 as slide definition # A title slide...

Next plans

• Better integration of booktester
• Support for Macrodown and Foliage 2.0

Bod book artefact

What's Changed

• Added support for bod-book (for all the new pharo books).
  Full Changelog: v8.3.0...v8.3.2