> Ian Clark earthspotty at gmail.com
> Fri Apr 1 10:17:11 HKT 2011
>
> But I'd prefer to develop entirely in J, not mash-up with Unix, so I
> guess I'll hack out my own limited facility. I'll just be careful not
> to extend it too far, in view of the alternatives.
Ian,
I've been using "literate" approach to write J code.
(see http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Literate for further links)
It is based on 2 processes, "tangle" and "weave".
"Tangle" extracts executable code from the document and "weave" produces
human readable presentation with comments that use rich presentation
capabilities of some existing product.
In J case, "literate" language is moinmoin markup, and presentation
language is HTML.
I've implemeted "tangle" step in J as described in
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/AndrewNikitin/Jtangle
with the purpose of being able to load code into J session without
explicit intermediate code extraction step.
For "weave" step I rely on J wiki (by pasting and submitting moinmoin
markup into wiki form).
One reason, I did not attempt full J implementation of weave is
inline latex macro. I use it often in comments and there is no way to
implement it in pure J.
Having said all that, limited weave is better than no weave.
If it is not too much to ask, could you please notify me when you
implement your formatter?
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