the idea is that we could eliminate noweave as a function
by using latex markup to specify the syntax. that eliminates
one half of the noweb functionality. this also has the feature
that pamphlets are simply latex documents with a special style
file and can be processed without noweb.
the [[ ]] syntax would need an "inline verbatim" kind of quoting
similar to what happens now (since [[]] gets replaced by latex code.
so
a sentence with [[quote me]]
becomes
a sentence with \iquote{quote me}
the notangle step is just a preprocessor step and can accept any
syntax. we could even unify this approach with Bill's
\axiom and \reduce processing.
i could write a lisp program to do the notangle step and
i believe it could be made MUCH faster.
unfortunately i cannot send you my current program as it is not
(yet?) open source. i'd have to get permission from work.
my best guess about the processing costs is the byte-by-byte
pipelining in noweb. my program is written in common lisp and
used to also do read-char (byte at a time). now i do a read-sequence
and reduced the i/o costs below measurable values. noweb uses a lot
of awk-sed processing rather than a single C program and i think the
process does not scale.
t
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