Gregor may know the history of "Scrap"; that term has been there ever
since I started using LyX/Sweave, and I never know how it came in.

Noweb is only one of the implementations of literate programming (to
beat Knuth's WEB), so I guess "literate" may actually be a better
name.

Regards,
Yihui
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
<lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote:
> This is a patch for testing (Kayvan?) since I do not have the
> tools/knowledge. This allows proper importation of noweb files (at least as
> good as it used to be).
>
> I also renamed the "literate" format. Tell me whether this is a problem.
>
> Finally, is there a reason why the Scrap layout is not Chunk, like it is in
> noweb documentation? Where does this scrap term come from?
>
> I wanted to extend that to sweave/knitr, but I have two problems:
>
> * knitr should have its own file extension
> * we need proper verbatim reading to make things work. There are too many
> strange characters in R code.
>
> JMarc
>

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