--- Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is at least one better tool than noweb: Leo > > http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html > > I believe that many of the design features of Leo would be beneficial > to the Axiom project.
I took one run at Leo and bounced - I'm willing to try again, though. I may have also thought of a specific example which might be a good test/showcase. In outputing TeX instead of ASCII art, there are any number of specific issues and design decisions that might need to be made on a per-topic basis - the use of the SI style package for correct formatting of units being once case I am aware of, another is the use of chemical packages for LaTeX when implementing chemistry related pamphlets. Unfortunately, neither a centralized mechanism for all TeX style outputs nor spreading these things over many pamphlets is ideal - the centralized mechanism separates the TeX logic from the conceptual work that it is linked to, and the diluted method makes a specific display bug hard to track without knowing exactly what part of the codebase it relates to. Leo (if I understand it's concepts) could solve both of these problems. If the tex output code is in one or several discrete chuncks, and its corresponding documentation is also organized this way, then it would be possible using Leo to assemble either a document with all tex output code in it (for output debugging) or a document with all code pertaining to (say) the unit concept, which is more logical for authoring and updating in a non-debugging context. Both of these outputs could be consistent, latexable pamphlet files, just generated based on the focus of interest at the time of the query. Bill, is that a reasonable use case for Leo+Axiom? You are far more fluent with it than I am. Cheers, CY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
